A week after we arrived home, having sold the van already, we headed to Rabbit Residence to pick up the gremlins. They’ve settled back at home just fine but most hilariously, while they were at the residence they had a little photo shoot done so that they too had some holiday photos. Ollie looks terrified […]
Europe Road Trip
Vannes, France Tisha’s! & the Final Journey Home. – Europe Road Trip
Day 87 – Avoiding the rain and arriving at Tisha’s We thought the weather was bad the day before but apparently we were wrong. Today the wind was so strong it was literally stripping the trees of leaves so there was little mini tornados of leaves making their way across the car park. We treated […]
Nantes and Vannes, France. – Europe Road Trip
Day 85 – Nantes In the morning we had a nice lie in followed by an late lunch and then figured we should probably actually go into the town. I’d done a lot of reading about les machines de L’ile and although we decided not to go into the museum, I don’t think you can […]
Oradour-sur-Glane, La Rochelle and Nantes, France. – Europe Road Trip
Day 82 – Oradour-sur-Glane This has to be one of the most surreal places. On the 10th of June 1944, Nazi soldiers surrounded the town, ordering all of the women and children in the church and all of the men into 6 different barns and garages. They shot all the men in the legs, doused […]
Caumont-sur-Garonne and Bordeaux, France. – Europe Road Trip
Day 80 – Caumont-sur-Garonne We left Carcassone and headed towards Valence. We’ve been amazed by the amount of grape vines growing in this area. Practically the entire journey is full of vines as far as you can see. When we arrived in the little town we realised that it was about to hold a festival. […]
Gorges d’Heric and Carcassone, France. – Europe Road Trip
Day 78 – Gorges d’Heric In the morning it was still pretty miserable but got up and wandered down to the lake. Our next few stops were all lakes to swim in but due to the weather we thought it best to just move on.
Pont du Gard and Barrage des Olivettes, France. – Europe Road Trip
Day 75 – A lack of Pont du Gard We left early and drove onto Pont du Gard through more windy roads and interesting rock cut outs.
Driving into France, Castellane and Gorge du Verdon, France. – Europe Road Trip
Day 73 – Driving into France With two and half weeks to go we thought we’d better see some of France. There weren’t many free places to stop along the south of France so we decided to head towards the National Park in Verdon and spend the day driving the scenic route! This involved the autostrada through […]
San Rocco and Camogli, Italy. – Europe Road Trip
Day 71 – San Rocco We left early to get moving further north. On the autostrade we drove through Cinque Terre which was really pretty. We had originally wanted to visit some of the towns but hadn’t found anywhere we could park. All of the towns are built right into the side of the mountains […]
Livorno and Pisa, Italy. – Europe Road Trip
Day 69 – Livorno Livorno is quite a small town and not very touristy, mainly because there’s not a lot left there. It feels like it was once a nice place to come and visit, but it’s now all a bit run down and in some places literally falling apart. We spent a couple of […]