Hotel Des Rempart Rochefort

Hot long day, so after only about 30km of fighting our way through beach towns seeing people sun bathing and eating icecream, we decided to join them! The bikes came down to the water where there were beautiful white cliffs rising off of the same and we scorched ourselves for a few hours. I thought we were getting lots of sun being on our bikes...

Bells, bells, and more bells. Awoke at 7am to 7 chimes on the large town bell (not that it stopped all night), but it repeated the time 3x over the next few minutes - just in case you missed the first. Then, in case you weren’t awake yet, it started an all out peel which lasted about 2 minutes. Afterwards, it continued the normal ¼, ½, and...

Ok so I'm getting a bit behind in my blogs as I've arrived at my uni now and want to write about that. I am having a really good time and re-living being a fresher, which is kind of funny! I also have my laptop set up now - yay! So as a simple solution I'm going to tell you about the food I cooked by posting some photos of it. I didn't photograp...

Hello!

A rather culinary themed entry today as I've just spent a week at Tomlins, which was a vegetarian cookery school in France. It is out in the french countryside, about half an hour from La Rochelle. La Rochelle is a largish town on the seaside and very very pretty. White sandstone buildings, towers, an old cathedrale, lots of tiny...

My drive back up to France was mostly uneventful, although I appreciated the mountainous and green scenery for the first hour or so as I worked my way from Urretxu up to the border. I will say that driving along the highways of Europe is a much more orderly and smooth process than in the States. No driver uses the left lane unless he/she is pass...

Bonjour from sunny La Rochelle!

Well not so sunny today actually, hence the decision to finally find an internet cafe and update the blog...

It`s now a week since we set off, and so far it's going great. The van has done really well, and hasnt given us a single problem as yet (touch wood). So here's a quick summary of what we'v...

This was
another disaster journey really. We started late after an extended chat with a couple from Ireland and set off under the command of TomTom taking a left out of the car park to our destination 40km away.
After two hundred metres TomTom found its feet and continued its reboot problem and we had resort to using GoogleMapping again. A...

Though technically this trip isn't part of my world tour, it was one of the best weekend’s I’ve ever had, and cemented me into starting the big trip.

Guillaume’s grandfather built a little cottage by the riverbanks near a town called Vergne in the west of France, near Poitiers. He was kind enough to invite along 22 pe...

Travel Tip 16: Do not get a French haircut when you don't speak the language. The Bordeaux 7's was a great time or what I remember of it, too hot, too much beer, actually I left before it was over. Bought the Canadian coach and trainer a beer at the Connemara later that evening, the rest of the Canada eedgits stayed in their hotel and played car...

We left for La Rochelle early June 14th. Our guide says it's about a 4 hour drive. I slept most of the way. When we arrive we find our hotel is right on the harbor. We had dinner at a seafood restaurant. I've never really ate seafood in my life, but we had some fish and it was pretty good.

After dinner we were able to walk around the to...