This post is about travels after reaching the west coast of France following our adventures travelling from the south, doing the Gavarnie walk and exploring Bordeaux. The current story begins with a visit to Mont St Michel, a picturesque tidal island that has been a pilgrim destination for centuries because of its early monasteries and later its magnificent Abbey. Today’s […]
Month: August 2022
Pilgrims, a walk, a long drive and wine country
We are beginning to realise that France is a big country. The drive from Paris to Carcassone took two days, and now we have only a few days to get to the northern border to cross into Belgium. There is a lot to see on the way, and it’s not possible to do more than skim the surface as we […]
Carcassone
We are back on the road after a week relaxing in the south of France, at Karma Château de Samary. There is so much to see around this district, pinned between a myriad of small hilltop villages that date back centuries and the Pyrenees. Carcassone itself is the site of one of the biggest and best preserved medieval citadels in […]
Five days in Paris
This post is a little delayed. We left Paris a few days ago, but it was so full-on there that we got a couple of days behind with photos and writing the Sway. Then the drive to the next destination took two days, with a stopover that didn’t have great Wi-Fi. Better late than never, though. We had a fabulous […]