La Ferté-Vidame

The Château in ruins from the French Revolution, grounds still intact. 

Lunch

Best lunch of the tour in Tours!

Tours

Medieval Tours

Les Machines de l’île

Amazing exhibition of working models in Nantes. Any anorak's dream!

Coffee culture.

Nantes on a wet day. 

Nantes

Fascinating city and a great tram system. 

La with new house & new man!

Coffee and conversation in Chasseneuil

Chasseneuil-sur-Bonnieure

Memorial to the French Resistance stands on a hill with a wonderful, panoramic view of the town. 

Le Querroy, Chavagnac

Staying with Jan for three days. Lovely to see him and all the amazing work he and Vickie have done on the house and 'housey'. 

Blaye on the Gironde estuary.

24 deg C on the banks of the Garrone. 

St Palais.

Campsite in the middle of vines.  

Bordeaux

Beautiful city centre. 

Lelin-Lapujolle, South West France

First rain on the trip so far! A little family farm in Gers. 

Our Odyssey so far

From the Loire valley, through the Midi Pyrenees, down to the French and Spanish Mediterranean coast to the Costa Blanca, sweeping through Spain via Madrid up to the north and back into French Basque country on the Atlantic coast. 

Burgos, Northern Spain

Great lunch, great cathedral too. 

Aranjuez nr Madrid

Royal Palace Aranjuez

Serranía de Cuenca Natural Park

A wild reserve in the mountains with a huge reservoir. 

Javea nr Denia

Lunch on the sea front with the Cromacks. 

Denia, Costa Blanca

Meeting up with friends old and new. 

Cambrils on the Catalonia coast

Lovely area, camp site right on the beach.