The Maison de la Nature was open today so we hopped back on our e-bikes to try the 11 kms from Rosnay. I’m still trying to get used to the 5 power levels of assistance available on my e-starli E28.…

We had a bit of early morning excitement when Francine spotted a magnificent Stag Beetle that appeared to be warming itself up in a patch of sun just outside Frodo. We were a bit worried about forgetting quite where he…

We needed to get from Bourges to Arçais in the Marais Poitevin by Thursday. It could be done in one longish hop but we decided to break the journey into two easy, shorter legs. Stage one, we decided, would be…

We left our very well designed aire de camping car in Troyes soon after 09:00 and set the controls for Bourges. It’s a Sunday so driving was easy, light traffic and no trucks. We soon came across a Super-U which…

We arrived sur le continent  on 24th May. It is now 1st June and it has rained every day that we’ve been here. I was very lucky in the Netherlands in that it didn’t rain where Antonio and I were…

We’d spent a comfortable night in Frodo off-grid in the parking area provided by the Belgian Brasserie des Fagnes. We got ourselves ready in a leisurely manner as the rain came down yet again. It has actually rained at least…

Our overnight stop at Bunnik would best be described as adequate, once we found a pitch that was not waterlogged. It’s not the sort of place I’d want to spend any more time so Darwin knows what the seasonals did…

I’m quite sure it wasn’t what Mark Knopfler had in mind when he penned his early Dire Straits song but there are so-called Dutch Waterlines and we were heading down to one of ‘em. The Dutch Waterlines are a 200kms…

One of Francine’s former colleagues is a Dutch guy living in Hilversum. We have visited him and his wife a couple of times at their house. This time, they planned to make the 90-minute trip up to Havelte so we…

Back came Antonio at 10:00 to collect me to go in search of the last of the five European White-faced Darters. I get a bit disoriented about the direction we are driving in from Jelly’s Hoeve but, after half an…