Frustratingly, we found the most interesting-looking things in La Rochelle about half an hour before our parking meter ran out. We spent…
The walk from our hotel into Folkestone town centre took about 30 minutes and led us through sedate housing estates, along…
Though we only stayed in Santiago for a few hours, it deserves its own blog entry.
We arrived at San Vicente de la Barquera after lunch, and camped in a site further along the bay, opposite the…
Sitting on the banks of the Dordogne just north of Bordeaux, Bourg sur Gironde is a fairytale village nestled between three…
Almost every person we had spoken to about our plan to go to La Rochelle said that we should go to Île de Ré. I had never heard of it. The…
It’s fair to say that I had high hopes for Porto. Liam lived there for six months on his year abroad, so he knew…
The journey from Calais to Porto, day by day
We arrived at Pont de L’Arche too late to get a pitch at the riverside campsite we had found online. Outside the main barrier was…
Our very first stop in France was in Abbeville, a small town about an hour south of Calais. We almost drove the wrong way up a tiny one-way…
