Michel Chabran Chateaux & Hotels De France Pont de L'isere

... an unforgettable experience; and unforgettable wine, which we'll be saving a bottle of for our 10th anniversary... when it will be at its prime.

The next day we visited the St. Joseph region of the Rhone; further north. Again, amazing wine and amazing people. You're supposed to call ahead to make an appointment with the smaller chateaus; but since we don't have a phone, our strategy was to drive down the road and pull over wherever we ...

... qui a donné à la maison sa configuration actuelle au 16ème siècle déjà, la chambre Claude Frère, Président du parlement de Grenoble qui fit percer la rue au 17ème pour donner un accès direct à son hôtel particulier et la chambre Lesdiguières, dernier connétable de France et ...

... ur ! Voilà pourquoi Diane et Henri-Jean Bayart ont acheté cet hôtel particulier du 15ème siècle. Protégée par une lourde porte en bois, cette demeure blottie au cœur de la vieille ville de Valence a pour particularité d'avoir été rénovée entièrement des mains de leurs propriétaires.
A la truelle et au marteau, Henri-Jean n'a pas rechign ...

... off lentils and bread for the next 10 months.

The house is wonderful - built in 1789 and made of lichen covered stone, heavy rough hewn beams and rough whitewashed walls. The garden is filled with cowslip and lavender with forest on all sides - some evergreen pine forest and some is natural forest with birches, elms, oaks, hawthorn, chestnuts and bracken. Yesterday we saw two red deer ...

Possibly the most romantic destination EVER, the Chateau Du Bijou is very beautiful and totally away from it all, but only just! We spent the weekend exploring the Ardeche and Drome
areas, situated either side of the Rhone Valley, which are both also really beautiful
and unspoilt holiday destinations. No crowded beaches, but fresh rivers
for ...

... fast.
The campsite electric had both the standard IEE plug as well as the French version at 9amps and there was a water tap on each pylon
There is a small bar and restaurant where you can get meals to eat in your outfit or tent but the bar does close early (7pm) like a lot of establishments in rural France

You know you have been away from home for a long time when you start speaking english the way foreigners do, like in my title.

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We ;have a wonderful place to stay at Dan's home in Agnin south of Lyon. It was wonderful to have Dan visit us at the Gite and now we will visit him at his lovely home with sweeping vistas of the surrounding countryside. We enjoyed hiking in the Mountains with him ...

... petit magasin d'alimentation Casino, une boucherie, une boulangerie et une boutique de tabac. Les magasins d'alimentation ne sont ouverts que le matin et sont fermés le lundi. Heureusement, notre car TransIsère arrive un peu vers midi et nous arrivons juste avant la fermeture de la petite épicerie. Déjà les produits sont si différents de ceux que l'on retrouve au Canada. J'ai le bonheur de retrouver les lardons et la grande gamme de produits Lu. La cuisine de notre chalet est ...

... and Lyon, say byebye, promise we would be careful and send postcards. On the 03/09, finally, we had our rucksacks on our backs... From there it hasn't been long before we were in front of Lyon's airport to take the very first plane of our trip around the world... GOD! Here we are, we are really ...