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Kissing under the Mistletoe
Said farewell to La Gacilly and headed back through the “amazonian” jungle to civilization. We entered our first lock on the Nantes Breast canal at […]
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La Gacilly, Home of Yves Rocher
Early exploration found a beautiful floral alley gardened by the residents. True to form we also found a botanical gardens! Set up by the man […]
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Dragon (fly) Boat
Not even mentioning the overnight wedding party which finished at 6am we awoke to a bright sunny day although our bedroom lights weren’t working. An […]
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The Boat that Rocks
Well let’s hope not because we are on it for 7 days!! There was quite a lot to learn at our briefing at the boatyard […]
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Bonsoir France
60 hours after leaving home in Edinburgh we have arrived in Ouistreham (Caen). A long journey but we were rewarded with a beautifully smooth crossing, […]
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The Devils Beeftub
The day started with a lovely drive down to Moffat. Max thoroughly enjoyed this. While he rested in the car park we set off on […]
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Straat
A trip on the free ferry to the Straat Exhibition, a warehouse full of all types of very large, unusual but interesting, street art, and […]
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From Botanics to Blunt
Birthday girls get to do all their favourite things, gardens, monuments, markets and gigs. Not allowed to buy any plants, damned brexit, but bought a […]
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Wohoo we did it again… no waves
Boat to bus to Amsterdam was seamless,although running a wee bit late. A quick march to our booked Fabrique des Luminaire Gaudi and Dali meant […]
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Lauder to Dabshead Hill via Lamb Moor
Wednesday 7th February 2024 Stunning sunshine and blue skies meant Max’s top was down all the way to Lauder. We parked easily in the centre […]
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Day 4 of 4 ✅️
Monday 1st May 2023 Looking forward to 7 hours of driving… NOT!! Why does Edinburgh have to be so far away from southern ferry ports? […]
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Day 2 and 3 of 4 ✅️
Sunday 30th April 2023 A fleet of yachts sailed out of Bilbao harbour to wave their goodbyes. The weather was cloudy readying us for the […]
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Day 1 of 4 ✅️
Friday 28th April 2023 We left Casa Mur de Alujan this morning. Not before saying goodbye to some friends. At the last minute 3 sheep […]
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Techo Abovedado
Thursday 27th April 2023 We have covered a big area of northern/central Spain and seen a wide variety of terrain, both urban, rural and religious. […]
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What’s that up there
Wednesday 26th April 2023 Sometimes you go for a walk with no planned route, you make changes as you go. This was us today, we […]
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Montserrat
Tuesday 25th April 2023 We’re heading for the mountains and what is in the mountains near Barcelona, the holy Abbey of Montserrat. Choices walk or […]
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Gaudi Love
Monday 24th April 2023 We love Gaudi, we visited Sagrada Familia 20 years ago when it was almost completely scaffolded inside and out. In 1883 […]
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Sant Jordi
Sunday 23rd April 2023 As we all know St. George killed the dragon and is the patron saint of England. In Catalonia Sant Jordi (St. […]
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Surreal
Saturday 22nd April 2023 Surrealism is weird. Salvador Dali was a genius, a master of Surrealism. We saw his weird today, but we also saw […]
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El Drac
Friday 21st April 2023 A day trip to Girona and what a beautiful city it is, one of the best we have seen. It’s small, […]
