The Loire Valley , France

When we planned this trip we realised we would be away around the time of our wedding anniversary so we decided to add a few days to include this. We had to get back to France anyway as our original flight bookings were to and from Paris. So after some […]


Oxford & Farewell, England

Well, today is our last in the UK for this tour. Tonight we are staying at the Crowne Plaza in Heathrow Airport ready for our flight back to Paris tomorrow. The last couple of days have really been driving days and today certainly more than originally planned. Day 1 We […]


Malton, England

Day 1 We had our breakfast and the first plan for the day was to drive to Durham and visit Durham Cathedral. Durham is also a university town and at ones stage in our planning Adrienne was looking at staying there but it was very hard to find any accommodation […]


Newcastle, England

We are starting to get towards the end of our English tour and today we get into the north of the country. Very fitting in some ways that for this tour we don’t venture into Scotland and our northern most stop matches the Roman conquests – a visit to Hadrian’s […]


Keswick, England

From Liverpool we are moving on to the Lakes District. Day 1 After yesterdays experience with breakfast we made sure we were earlier but obviously so had some of the others ! Not enough to cuase any issues though and we were able to be fed and on the road […]