Well we’re back home safely after a pretty uneventful long day of driving back in one go. No challenges at the Eurotunnel terminal with only a question to check we had completed our Passenger Locator forms, so now we we are into our quarantine period. It seems we left just in time as France goes… Continue reading Back in Blighty – signing off

We’re into our last week here – sadly – but trying to make the most of the last few days. The owner of the house we’re renting had recommended a few places to eat in the region including a restaurant in a very small hamlet not far away, serving Guinness and good ‘pub grub’. We’d… Continue reading An extra hour and the start of winter

We’re taking advantage of sunny days to get our last few rays where we can and the last week has been windy but surprisingly mild with temperatures going up to the mid-20s. Joe loves a train journey and Sarlat is the end of the line so we took a trip to Bergerac, to the West,… Continue reading Cyrano and Roxane

Since we arrived in France at the end of June we’ve watched different crops grow, ripen and be harvested and now we’re seeing the last of those crops being gathered in. And on the farms around the house we’re staying in the tractors are out ploughing the rich brown fields for this winter’s crops. On… Continue reading Harvests and Hanging Gardens

The weather has definitely calmed down thankfully and the we’ve enjoyed some warm October sunshine. We heard this week from our Dutch fisherman friend who was staying on for a few weeks at our favourite campsite on the Lot after we left and whom we had hoped to meet up with on market day. He… Continue reading Autumn sunshine

You may have read that parts of France have been having some pretty severe weather, in particular near the Franco-Italian border. We’ve certainly felt the effects of some of that with heavy rain, but it seems to be much calmer now. We’ve still been able to get out and take our chances with the odd… Continue reading Castles in the air….

Well the week seems to have flown by and we’ve spent our time getting ship-shape, exploring locally on foot and exploring further afield. Another week of dire weather predictions, but just about every day seems to clear up in the morning to bring us Some dry weather and even sunshine. Still, it seems like we… Continue reading Dodging the weather