This year’s spring and early summer (if you count this as summer before the solstice) has been famously atrocious, not only in the UK but in a lot of France as well. Although farmer Luc at Les Brugues, Fanjeaux, says…

Any regular readers of this will know that I’ve been monitoring dragonflies and damselflies on this site for many years. It used to be an absolute haven for odonata. Following the admittance of a Koi Carp farmer many years ago,…

As we hadn’t begun by knowing where we’d end up yesterday, we weren’t initially sure where to head to today. Normally from here, there’d be no debate, we’d drop into Les Brugues at Fanjeaux, at least for a couple of…

‘T was time to move on. We had originally intended to stay in Arçais for four days but, with our late lamented friend’s formalities over, we had stayed for eight, largely because the weather was favourable and we could now…

All went smoothly for our late, lamented friend’s celebration of life. We had intended to move on on Monday 10th but, since we have a very pleasant pitch on the pleasingly rural campsite in Arçais, and with the weather looking…

It began with Francine getting excited about being able to do laundry. There is a washing machine on site but it requires le guardien also to be on site to kick it off; yesterday he wasn’t. Today was also sunny…

Here’s the reason we have been taking a rather convoluted route into Europe. We began by going through the Hook of Holland to north-eastern Netherlands to Havelte. Then we had to tack back west and south, more or less all…

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…