Campanile - Beziers - Villeneuve-Les-Beziers Béziers

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I travelled down with Juliete and Natacha ( the mum) at around 4pm and we didnt arrive until nearly 10pm. Its a long trip!
On the Saturday morning we took a walk on the beach right in front of the house. It felt so good to be by the sea again =) However Australian beaches are much nicer because the ones here have brown sand and its not so nice to walk or lie on. Plus they are covered in coquillages but they are the most ...

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 ...

... they themselves are traveling. If you're boring, you're most likely do not want to travel. Since everyone is in the same boat, we have the same perspectives and values. You know automatically everyone likes to travel, has great stories, and has overall a really fun personality. I can say hands down that out of the hundreds of people that I have met, maybe only 2 were boring. So what, you just move on and find more ...

We left Barcelona, Spain early this morning and arrived off the coast of Leucate Plaga around 10 AM. The beach here is rated as the best bare beach in the world and we were here to participate. The weather was cool and overcast so there weren't many people out and no one was naked. We took a tender to shore and chilled for a while before returning to the yacht, disappointed that the weather had dashed our hopes of the perfect ...

... two weeks (I was planning on staying for 12 days). So instead I've mapped myself out a really nice road trip throughout Spain, where I will stop in Valencia, Granada, Malaga, Gibraltar, Sevilla, Cordoba, Madrid, and Pamplona. This should take me about the same time, so I'd have approximatelty 2 1/2 weeks. Hopefully my next post will be from a strange and foreign Spanish city.

Well, finally - after a false start setting out to pick up friends from Pau airport a day early! - first night: moored up alongside the Canal du Midi, just south of Beziers. Some very noisy ducks for company... Bit of a gloomy one weather-wise. Rained last night, but forecast suggests brightening up gradually as day goes on. Slowing our departure from ...

So here I am, I finally arrived in France. After a difficult goodbye at the airport, I was on my way to the great unknown. But before I started that, I had to go to the bathroom…and brush my teeth; one
thing at a time here. My flights all went really well and I never had to wait more than one hour during my connecting flights. I had a wonderful delicious airplane meal ...

... cay bahcesinde cekirdek citletilen yazlik kasaba tadinda bir yer...

Otele vardigimda otelde yer kalmadigini ogrendim. Beni kardes otellerine transfer ettiler. Yolda beni goturen kizin, yirmisinde yoktur, ustu basi dokuk, tek askisi omuzundan dusmus, yaslanmadan yaslanmis gibi bir hali vardi. Otele yaklastigimizda eliyle yukaridaki balkonda oynayan veledi gosterdi, ogluymus.

Otel sahibi saclar briyantinle arkaya ...

... it is time to go. July 7-13 The ferry to Melaggio was very smooth and easy. Melaggio was built on a hill so it was up, up, up into the Lugano valley to Lake Lugano. We had a very long and relaxing lunch on Lago Lugano. After that we quickly went through the city of Lugano and were on our way to Bellizona which we had heard from fellow travelers had a few castles the kids could run around in. Bellizona is a fairly large town in a beautiful valley about 20 km from Lugano and 10 km ...

... eat , the parks were too cold and the train staion didn't seem right, so down the road we found a office building that looked closed and we set up shop, making tea and eating sandwiches and yogurt. turns out the office was open and the employees were inside watching us, huddled on their porch making teas. they were cool, we were embarressed, they wanted to find out what we were up to, and gave us some fruitcake. we rode with the tail wind to sete, really ...