Le Fonserane Béziers

... had a bonbon called choupettes, i had peach flavour and it was so good =) Their kinda like giant humbugs on a stick. We went to a cafe for a drink before gettting back in the car.
But we didnt drive to Dijon just yet we went to some friends of theirs for lunch. They had this really nice house pretty much on the golf course. They also had two little adopted children who were really cute. In the garage of their house they had a trapdoor ...

No, not the black death of yesteryear, but the beach!

Seems like a long journey to get here. Ever since arriving in France we’ve been ‘heading south’ with the goal of arriving at the Medeterranian Sea. Then the last few days of leaving the Pyrenees was very slow indeed. We tried to take the canal we loved soo much before Tolouse to find that it was only a tiny dirt footpath with lots of large roots as obsticals. We ...

... is hands down my favorite way to travel. At first, it seems very intimidating, but you meet so many people so quickly. I had pictured myself being alone for the whole time, but honestly, I have not had a single dinner alone. The idea of eating alone is not even an option because there are so many people to hang out with. What is also very cool about traveling is that all the people you meet are mildly interesting ...

... cards in the upper decks salon. Sometimes the rolling of the yacht would cause our cards and chips to slide about, but overall it wasn’t too bad. If anything it just added to the excitement and adventure of it all. Although it looked like I was going to win, in the end a few bad hands lost everything.

We arrived in Marseille around 9:30 PM. It was windy and cold in Marseille, so no one felt like going out ...

So I'm going to nix Portugal from my plans. I started getting a bad feeling when I called them the other day in order to confirm my arrival and they had no idea who I was. Maybe I spoke too fast, but they seemed really confused by my arrival. I sent an email to the guy and he seemed really mad that my dates kept changing and he told me it wasn't worth their time if I came less ...

... to allow rain in Italy to clear. Want to re-visit Lake Garda, see if we can't get the spot right next to the lake we last had some 15 years ago, say. Don't know if it's a good idea to go back to the site of happy memories: can you improve on them in any way, or only spoil their rosy glow?
All well with rig, thankfully - you hardly know it's there!

... loved me and couldn't wait to see me (I can't blame them). I only have one week until I leave for Portugal, so I really don’t have time to sit around and feel sorry for myself (Boo Hoo Hoo, I have a whole year of vacation and I am going to Asia, poor me…right, pffrtt). So that’s that. As time goes by, I promise that my blog will get more and more interesting.

... bah d'accord. Et quand dois-je y être?
Bah dans 4 jours!
Ahhhhh, me dis-je intérieurement, mais non!!! Ok, donc on voit tout ça lundi.
A bientôt!"

Bon, super, je viens d'apprendre que je pars mardi en Hollande pour 4 mois et je n'ai qu'une journée pour tout organiser.

Super, bon bah sur ce, on va aller à la plage, peut-être est-ce une mauvaise blague et que il n'y aura plus rien ce soir ;)

... so gracious and helpful. It left us with yet another wonderful feeling about the Cinque Terre region. We drove about 2 hours north to Milan where we encountered the Italian version of the freeway maze and commute traffic jams. We spent about an hour just trying to figure out how to get from one side of the city to the other and on to Lecca, east of Como and south of a little town called Verenna. This is when we wished we had more detailed maps and we also considered getting a GPS on ...

... look, we deserve it. Ride with a family man who doesn't talk much. Ride with an arab with a nice car. We go far. You smell that smell? Cigarette posed by his lips. That is what tells us that our beautiful wines are in season once more. Grapes fresh from the vine. And good ones at that. Long drag on the cigarill. We get out of the car. We realise that our one and a half litre bottle of **** wine has completely emptied itself in the ...