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Onto finnisterre by bus
We slept in and had a great hotel buffet breakfast before going to mass in the Santiago cathedral. After mass and a good look round Santiago we went to the bus station where we caught the bus to finnisterre. The journey is only 90km by foot but a three hour bus ride. We arrived and found an albergue to stay in and then went for a walk to the lighthouse ...
Into Santiago
... not opening until 8pm and the children tired, foot sore and hungry we ate at the early hour of 7pm at a not so posh restaurant but the fish meal was very good all the same. The children and Jeanne who is still suffering from a very bad toothache went to bed after dinner but the crew of Cedric, Rochelle, Sabine and David as well as Andrea had a couple of wine bottles together. This time the wine was not pilgrims ...
Wet day in Paris and road trip to Blois
Another rainy day in Paris - leisurely breakfast and then a trip to the shops. A bit of a hassle as long way and no where to keep bags. Cam and I play minders of the bags so the other can shop. Train trip a bit of an issue as we took the wrong one and ended up taking about 90mins to get to Versailles. This meant we were about 2 hours behind schedule, however picked up our car and headed ...
Chateau, chateau
... There was Chaumont-sur-Loire with fairy-tale turrets and views up and down the Loire, Cheverny where the enclosure of 100 French hounds, so strong and athletic looking, grabbed our interest and then, my favourite, Chenonceau. It was built in the 16th century, over the River Cher with an array of gardens of flowers, hedges and a huge number of all sorts of interesting vegetables kept in the way they would have ...
The big cycle. (Nicky)
Today we woke up very early to go to a 60km bike ride. It would be our longest one day bike ride if we completed it. We, being Ollie and I, didn't bother to complain knowing our comments would never make any difference to mums decision. We started off by zooming ahead. Then mum swapped bikes with Ollie at ten minutes. At that time also we were outside a shato that ...