Balladins Confort Hotel Aurillac

Took us a while to find a park last night as we were aiming to stay in Le Rozier which is close to the start of Gorges de Tarn as that was the drive we wanted to do today. <br><br>Unfortunately roadworks stood in our way and we took the next best option of the drive through Gorges du la Jonte. <br><br>Stunning is the best way to descirbe this drive. I got the ...

We left the west coast and headed inland to look for work. We stopped at Angouleme for lunch which had a spectacular view from the old city. We carried on into the Dordogne, and looking for a campsite came across a municipal site in a little town called Argentat-sur-Dordogne. The weather was stifling hot, which that night brought on 24 hours of massive thunderstorms and then 3 days of rain! The Dordogne was flooding and even Argentat lost electricity one night!

... station where we'd rented it, and fortunately didn't have to deal with any of the damage on it at the time (but now we're grappling with bad insurance guys, wishing we'd just taken the darn collision insurance...arggh). The TGV station in Avignon is very cool -- clean and modern and airy. But you do have to pay a euro to the cleaning woman if you need to use the bathroom there. A better deal, if you can hold it, is to ...

... all the way to the pyrennees, according to some of the people who actually have guidebooks. which will make me happy because although my pack is heavy it does not pain me to go uphill. downhill however is another manner, and my knees hurt quite a bit. i'm very cheery today, but we do get sad and your prayers and thoughts really do help us along, so if you read this, please let me know. love trae

... day, and as few as 13 km on the fourth day. few but painful walking wounds have surfaced between jeff, tams, and i. tams has been afflicted with some painful blisters on her toes which have been attributed to her toes which like to wiggle and in her boots are not able. for the past few days she has been in her chacos, and life seems to be shining a lot of sun on her now. Jeff, who i'd like to mention is not carrying any of the video ...

Finally the day of departure from the BB arrives! Plan was to be gone without trace before it awoke, but packing and pondering took too much time for that. Lengthy goodbyes to the Welsh boys and Andy. Everyone else was too busy meditatin. At the last minute before disappearing, Dani ran out with fruit for us. Felt like the spotty kid who gets a moment´s attention from one of the big girls. Why so ...

Misery. We´re so WET. Chris didn´t sleep. And I barely did. Found a cheap super market and bouhgt a cheap roast chicken to dry our sorrows. A bad move. This over-preserved chicken´s soul will come back to haunt us. Catch about six rides from village to village til we get to ...

... daily business. Nuns and monks of every imaginable order and style of habit/cossack added colour to the lovely street scenes. This is indeed the perfect time to be travelling here as the days are crisp and sunny and the tourists have all gone home! We began our quest to find the perfect lunch here in Assisi and good fortune led us to a terraced restaurant high up with breathtaking views and excellent, traditional Umbrian dishes. We felt we had found the ...

... avoir manger vous avez 10 minutes de temps libre. Je suggère un peu d'étirement et de s'étendre sur l'herbe. Admirez la vue, le Beaujelais c'est magnifique et observer tout les vignes qui reste a faire. 8-L'après-midi, un 4h pratiquement non stop vous attend et ne vous en faite pas il passe vite. 9-Le retour à la maison ce fait à toute vitesse dans la boîte d'un camion ou il est indpesable de faire savoir à tous que nous on a terminer. Gardez quand même une main ...

... a whole bottle of wine just sitting there. Strange. The water was shimmering like a glass mirror. The peaceful silence did help my mood a bit. The trees and architecture here are relaxing and the unbusy-ness was a good slowdown. It was really nice to visit a small town in France but one night was enough for me as there is not a whole lot to do here except eat, drink and avoid the doggie doo doo. Off to Spain tomorrow.