Campanile - La Roche-Sur-Yon

... off and gets twisted around the pedal and kinked! How this happens to him I have no idea….Shamefully he went back to the bike shop for help once again as it was too far back to our campsite for him to fix it with his own tools. But the owner was very km and Brian was back out in 2 minutes flat.

Let’s hope that will do us for another 3000+km!

After leaving the canal it’s been like entering a new world. No longer is it autumn, but late summer with the insects humming in the grass and the hot ‘dog days’ upon us. Sun all day long without a spec of cloud. Fields dusting from the lack of rain and the few corn stalks that are there are stunted in growth. The barometer reads: tres sec. Lizards bask on rocks and snakes slither off the hot ...

We stayed 1 night in Paris with Olivier, after we spent 2 days in Rouze in Pyrenee. We finished 1st week of our vacation in Toulouse (trip by canal). Second week, we stayed in Talmont st.Hilaire in Francois´s parents.
Vendee is very very nice :-) !!!

Hello,
After a week in Angers, where we stayed taking some rest at our gran parents house, we aheaded to Les sables d"olonnes, where we are going to spend 2 weeks at the shore. Look forward to it. I have been there 2 years ago. Great place to built sand castle, my cousins are coming to visit me....it is going to be a great 2 weeks.
Enjoy the pictures

Remy

Tough day today; first it rained, then it poured. Finally, when the sun came out, the winds blew in off the sea! La Rochelle is worth a visit to see the back streets and restaurants along the harbour, especially lit up at night. Back in the rooms in Charron now, watching the stars and satellite spotting :-)

... are very high up and they have a great deal of technical difficulty; for example you take part in long rope swings into cargo nets that you have to grab, miss the net and you will be suspended from your harness with someone blowing one of the emergency whistles attached to all the trees to summon assistance much to your embarrassment. There are a number of zip wires which are great fun ...

... Auckland and Sydney were connected by a bridge too.....wouldn't be the first. Anyhow, had a fair amount of time to wait, so got some expensive breakfast and watched the Beeb blab on about the foot and mouth scare until it was time to board. The flight was pleasant, although sadly the ground was obscured by cloud, and over so quickly the air hostesses were still halfway through the drinks service when we started to descending to land. Sam read one of his ...

... yup, we'd left the awning poles back in Wales!! Thankfully on the outskirts of Sable d'Olonne we found a caravan spares place and picked up a universal set - PHEW! We'd taken our mountain bikes expecting a good bit of exercising, but the kids decided they wanted to pose around the swimming pool and sunbathe. Nevertheless Huw and I took off on a cycle up to Talmont ...

... niets een spi-slurf gekocht, die de knopen in de spi tijdens het hijsen moet voorkomen. Maar die moet eerst nog worden geïnstalleerd. We maken met de stroom erbij gemiddeld een 6 knopen en dat is niet mis als we bedenken dat er maar weinig wind staat. En het doet ons waarlijk een genoegen dat we spi-loze schepen, hoe groot ook, voorbij zeilen! Ondanks het niet hebben van onze elektronische kaart gaat het prima lang de kust te varen en de ondiepten en rotspartijen te omzeilen. De ...

Hoy, fuimos en el coche y visitamos muchos sitios en la region (algunas veces vimos cosas por habernos equivocado en la carretera). El primer sitio fue un pueblo pequeño donde la unica cosa que hicimos fue sacar fotos de una iglesia. Pero... el dia mejoro. Manejando por rutas muy bonitas en el campo vimos a una granja donde hacen vino. Nos paramos al instante y cinco minutos mas tarde los cuatro Santillan/Bruton/Moreau BORACHOS!!!! Y ...