Author Archives: lynnefrancophile

After a good half hour of confusing phone calls and driving up and down and round and round, the gps suddenly got his act together and ensured we ‘arrived at your destination’. It didn’t look very promising but then i … Continue reading →

Zadar is a very lively place! The old town is full of restaurants and tat shops but some lovely old buildings and wonderful views across the water. We walked down from ‘pansion maria’ with its effusive owner, spurning the rowboat … Continue reading →

Padua is full of bicycles and telephones. Paduans are either riding one or talking on the other, always with emphatic gestures of the free hand. I didn’t witness both taking place at the same time but maybe someone somewhere was. … Continue reading →

After a sunny start in chambery topping up on gasoil, finding an optician’s to fix the loose screw in lou’s glasses and buying a picnic lunch in carrefour we were off! The scenery to the frejus tunnel was amazing as … Continue reading →

Sunny drive, stopped for our sarnies in a pretty aire and am now enconsed in room 13 at the b and b hotel. No gruffalo bill nearby but we have a bon for two free kirs at a restaurant close … Continue reading →

Getting very excited about our road trip to montenegro and albania but can’t helping noticing the paradox between our expectation of easy movement from one country to another while being assailed with tragic news stories about the thousands of refugees … Continue reading →

we went back to the ‘end of the world’ to eat on wednesday evening as the other restaurant had rather a limited menu. i had discovered the name ‘end of the world’ used to refer to the whole village as … Continue reading →

19/8/2015 16.47 well, the best laid plans and all that. the higher we climbed the colder it got. i pitied the family with laden donkey attempting to make it over ‘les cretes’ to le lioran. at the col de peyrol … Continue reading →

19/8/2015 8.58 our first night under whatever has replaced canvas for the first time in i don’t know how long. i was snug having taken the precaution of wearing my warmest winter jimjams (we are 930 odd metres up or … Continue reading →

(no wifi anywhere nearby so playing catch up) 18/8/2015 18.45 hunkered down in the tent on camping du puy mary. a lovely location, shame about the sanitation… is it only on french country campsites that you still find ‘wc a … Continue reading →