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It Didn’t Smell Much Like Lavender
You know how when you’ve heard about someone or maybe only spoken to them over the phone, you unwittingly create a picture in your head as to how they look? But you only realise that if you meet them in person and then get a surprise because how they look doesn’t at all match the
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Almost Avignon (La Begude de Rochefort)
Grrrr, again I lament at my inability to upload macrons onto this keyboard. French looks so much better with macrons. I probably need to find a five year old to help me. A travelling day today. I love our travelling days. They are a bit of a rest, for me anyway, and we get to
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The Castle on the Hill
You all know Clive well. Would you ever, in a million years, have thought that he would happily spend three hours looking at shoes? Well today he did. It’s true. But more about that in a bit. First, I want to tell you about the ruins of a medieval castle we visited this morning, called
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Valence on a Saturday
People, Parc & Puppies Hello and bonjour to you. We are in Valence for the next two days and I was hoping to visit another market, being as it was a Saturday (although markets seem to be held on various different days throughout the week here in France). Markets anywhere in the world are wonderful
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On the Way to Valence (via Switzerland…)
… which wasn’t entirely planned. Ooops! The thing is, our rental car is only insured whilst driving within France. So what we had planned, albeit rather last minute, was to make the two hour drive eastwards towards Geneva, park somewhere close to the border and then see if we could ‘pop over’ on foot and
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Lyon L’Ancien et Le Nouveau
It stirred me up a bit, our return visit to Lyon today. And I become quite sombre on the drive back to our accommodation in Meximieux as I tried to process it all. How much to blab on about it here, I’m not sure. It was to do with the contrasts in life – the
Over to France
Bonjour and thank you for stopping by. My name is Renie and this is the story of my first trip (avec mon mari) to France. We flew into Paris and then journeyed south-eastward by car, through so many beautiful villages, to arrive in Nice. It was four weeks of amazingness. We were totally smitten and our lives have been forever changed! If you would like to have a peek at what we experienced, then please read on….. And if you would like to venture further with us, as we work out our future Over to France adventures, then please read on a bit further still…
Over To France 