We are staying with Francine’s first cousin once removed. Ya just gotta love this genealogy stuff. These are the lovely people who used to live in Singapore and played host to us in 2013 when we visited there with a…
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… to Kirrily
Boarding our second leg flight overnight to Adelaide went smoothly. I was anxious to check for row 4, curiously missing from the previous flight from London and, lo, there it was. Our ex-London aircraft was an Airbus A350 with no…
Posted in 2024-01 Australia
From Isha …
Today we fly, or are supposed to fly, from Heathrow terminal 4 to Kuala Lumpur. It will be our first taste of Malaysia Airlines. I say “supposed to” because, though the threat of snow may have receded, storm Isha is…
Posted in 2024-01 Australia
A Winter Break
[This is a sort of test post to check out the new travel laptop, Francine’s old one having blown its red channel. This is Windows 11 – YIKES!] I miss our long winter breaks in Spain tremendously since we sold…
Posted in 2024-01 Australia
The Last Supper
We spent our very leisurely last morning at the Amboise camping municipal, including a last wander across the bridge over La Loire to pick up a baguette and some paté for lunch. Some form of historical event was happening in…
Posted in 2023-09 France
Back to the Beginning
Devotees of the Scandi-drama, The Bridge, may remember the haunting theme tune, Hollow Talk, which finishes on the line, “goes back to the beginning”. If you aren’t a devotee, then I recommend that you become one and watch it. Going…
Posted in 2023-09 France
A Blissful Retreat
Many years ago we stayed at a camping municipal at a village called Hérisson [which translates as hedgehog or sea urchins if you’re Spanish]. I had very vague recollections of liking it, even though the memory has been dulled by…
Posted in 2023-09 France
Le-Puy-en-Velay
We have visited Le-Puy-en-Velay once before, way back in 2009, so much of this is not new. What is new is the campsite. Try as we might, we cannot remember where we stayed on that first visit but we’re pretty…
Posted in 2023-09 France
Sous le Pont
Since about half of France closes on September 15th, or thereabouts, we are now into the part of the trip where you go where there is an open campsite. We are up at Avignon. We came here many years ago…
Posted in 2023-09 France
Phut!
We’ve moved on from Loupin but only a relatively short distance, about 40kms further east along the Mediterranean coast to Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone. [I’m curious about the grave accent here on “les”.] We’re in a couple of days of unsettled weather pattern…
Posted in 2023-09 France
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