Le Rivage
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If the French can do it, so can I!
... sure loire.
We had a fab time, seeing all kinds of villages and getting very confident with driving the van. David has decided that he does not want to drive the van in the dark, so I ended up with the final charge - to find the campsite SHUT.............
So what would the French do?
Find a car park and settle down! So that's what we did. We went to the next town along which ...
A visit to a cycling mecca
... supply of shops and old monuments to look at. Many people use it as a base to visit war sites and memorials but we decided against this on our trip. That's not because they aren't worthy, it's just a matter of prioritising and we visited Villers Bretonneux on our last trip and paid our respects then. Yesterday we visited a mecca of cycling which many of you will be very familiar with - the velodrome at Roubaix. For those of you who aren't ...
La Fabuloserie: you will never be the same...
... sculptures and prints from scrap materials when he encountered Jean Dubuffet.
Dubuffet's own work had gone against the mainstream and he had developed an interest in work done by other untrained artists working outside of the established art world. Often these were unknown, isolated people creating obsessively and maniacally, using ...
From Burgundy to the Loire
... but the past couple of days at least, it's been no problem), walked around an old abbey, got some aniseed candy (it's their big thing in Flavigny; their economy seems to solely consist of a little tourism and aniseed candy), and got pictures of ourselves with gates. It's going to be a little tricky to write this entry, since roughly all we did was drive up to a town, poke around, walk through a church, gawk, take some pictures and leave. OK, it doesn't sound so fun ...
1st Day - Lunch of course!
... I do an emergency stop. Straight into reverse, but the Mustang is there again (how did she get behind us?) and she takes the right road and I am now behind her.
No problem. I am still within my time slot. She must be a minute late and will have to put her foot down to catch up. At the next check I am a little slow so I need to catch up. So I motor along nicely and finish.
Fantastic. Big smiles all around and off to ...
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