We got back to Somerset to my brother Grant and Anne’s place. Mum had flown down from Scotland to catch up with us too. We weren’t very...

We had a lovely stay with Kate and Rob in Hove. We went to Tunbridge Wells one day and enjoyed the interesting streets and shops. We...

After Naours we headed to Neufchâtel-en-Bray on a foggy morning. The leaves of all colours are scattered over the roads. We stopped off...

First thing was a walk to find the site of the Pheasants Wood mass graves. We had a very nice sunny walk through the wood but couldn’t...

We walked into the centre of Arras in the morning to check it out. We found the large squares in the middle with decorative houses around...

It was a quiet night at Thiepval memorial though Glenn heard a very active owl. We woke up to a cold misty morning. We had our hot...

We got off early as we had a lot to do. We found a garage with LPG for our gas bottle in Albert and filled that up - then filled up the...

We were a bit confused in the morning as I thought I had got up nice and early at 7.30am and I felt well slept and it was nice and...

We first went to the museum in Peronne but couldn’t get near the museum to park as it was all blocked off due to a market. We found...

We drove out of the champagne area in sunshine on ‘World Champagne Day’ - thank you George for the info. There were lots of interesting...

We left the very quiet village of Trepail and after 30 minutes drive parked at an aire on the canal in Ay en Champagne. It is very close...

It was 6 degrees outside and foggy when we woke up. We put on the heater to bring the inside to a reasonable temperature so we could get...

We went for a walk to the tourist office in Verdun via the bakery and found some monuments and a Vaughan fort on the way. After picking...

We packed up and said our farewells to Angela and Oliver until next year and drove off towards France. We stopped at a German Lidl to...

It was a grey, foggy day but not raining thank goodness. After our nice German breakfast of eggs, cheese, many homemade jams and fresh...

Now in Mainz we had a special breakfast with nonalcoholic bubbly with Angela and Oliver - and Quintor, Angela’s sisters dog there for a...

It was another grey day when we left Strasbourg and drove to the Lalique museum in the little town of Wingen sur Moden that Glenn was...

It was a rainy morning to start with so we waited until it cleared until we left for the day. We headed through the city to the European...

It was very foggy as we drove out of our Eguisheim campsite on our way to Strasbourg. There was an accident on the freeway so we...

It was very foggy and cold when we woke up. We got ready slowly and then got on our bikes for a cycle north up the Alsace Vine Route to...