Campanile Gueret

... stands as a proud citadel. The old town perches on a dramatic hilltop, overlooking the yachts and other pleasure boats that now fill the harbour below.


In the narrow streets, café sitting and menu browsing is the order of the day, while watching the local fashionistas walk ...

... stroll around you'll discover a blend of gabled Basque houses and art deco villas. To get your bearings, take a walk from the Côte des Basques and follow the winding trail to Port-Vieux. Then cross the footbridge to the Virgin Rock, named after its statue of the Virgin Mary ...

... de match. Il y a eu à peine de violence, deux trois bagarres dans la section des capotés. Mais les autorités sont tout de même « extrêmement déçus, ulcérés, indignés de la tournure des événements ». L'événement était que les gens ne prenaient pas pour l'équipe royale, malgré tout composée d'un tiers d'arabes, ils ne voulaient pas que ça apporte crédit à la France puisqu'ils ne sont pas, n'ont pas pu être, et ne veulent plus depuis longtemps être ...

... back of mine) and had great fun cycling round the area - there are dedicated cycle paths so you feel quite safe.



We found the onsite catering facilities quite handy, too. The shop is very well stocked and does fantastic baguettes and croissants in the morning. The restaurant ...

... so popular. Anyway, we needed some wine glasses. Haven't a clue what happened to the ones we had before, hardly worth pinching, so I'll just assume our renters had a lot of accidents involving glasses. Never mind - we found some lovely Turkish tea glasses, gold rimmed, fitting perfectly in the palm of your hand. Two euro for 6 and an extra one thrown in. They'll look smashing on the dinner table. Seems like we're better off all round. To my ...

... up higher and higher as the babies grew, eventually moved out to perch on the edge of the half-nest. She'll be teaching them to fly soon, but we won't be around when that happens. We'll have to leave the door open, Bernadette will keep an eye on them. Mieke has finished the top she was cementing, it looks great, slate with pebbles and bits of colored glass. Patsy and Femke made chair covers and Peter is doing something ...

... to know is why on earth would a snail voluntarily make its way up to the top of the jar to then slither? dive? into a sea of salt, to a certain and unpleasant death, unless it were seriously suicidal? I want to know these things. Like the mice that come here, soon as we've turned our backs. We find walnuts (left in a bowl on the table) behind the toilet, where the mice have created their own private entrance to the house ...

... as flying over the ALPS. Yeah, thought they were clouds for a good while. Nope, just the peaks. They gave us food on this flight as well...... but..... it was like a cheese and chutney sandwich and a chocolate covered "digestive bar". "Is that wafer?" "..something like that. Kinda buttery" "It says...´chocolate covered digestive bar´..." "...........what........". Well, we should be in Rome in about an hour? Maybe less. :) ciao ...

This entry is for my wonderfull nefews, they did for me nice drawings for my departure Pour mes neveux et soeurs preferees, je vous ai mis vos dessins sur cette entree: ils m ont fait tres plaisir. De cette facon, ils voyageront avec moi durant ce tour du monde Je vous fais une bisette de l'autre bout du monde. Tonton Marc

... German motor homers for the evening. Day 349 -Saturday 10th February - Epernay, Reims to Paris O.K another drama today. After sleeping in to midday...because it was raining of course...we took of in the direction of Reims, driving through all of the wine yards. Reims was a bit boring though as it is more a modern city as it has been rebuilt twice...the Cathedral was impressive but we could not work out how to get there so we decided to keep driving to Paris. However ...