Auckland, NZ

Crossing the ditch – to Auckland … the Windy City ?! Well, we are off on our NZ 2025 tour starting in Auckland NZ. As we have done on a few tours now, we decided to stay at the Rydges International Airport with our flight leaving early the next morning. […]


Where else but …………….. 1

So this year’s tour takes us to the USA So this year’s tour takes us to Canada So this year’s tour takes us to New Zealand – “the land of the long white cloud” ☁️☁️☁️. It has been over 20 years since I visited New Zealand – in fact my […]


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 […]