Category Archives: France

5 Years of marriage so let’s go to France

Mon, 29 October, 2007 – 10:55 PM MDT

In order to celebrate our five year wedding anniversary we decided to take a car ferry to France. many English people who go to a wine supermarket for the day and they return to Dover for an evening cup of tea. But we decided if we are going to another country lets make a trip [...]

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Grazing around Grasse

Mon, 8 May, 2006 – 8:24 AM MDT

Our final destination was Grasse the home of perfume north of Nice.
There happened to be a rose expo there which was quite interesting and Susan conned me into buying her some perfume for her birthday.

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Liking the Luberon

Sun, 7 May, 2006 – 10:15 PM MDT

Getting to Provence
We left the C�te d’Azur yesterday for the Lub�ron area of Provence. Our first and most drawn out trip was to Fr�jus, a roman seaside town. It is the main artery to the autoroute A8 (motorway). Not quite as bad as St Tropez but almost as bad. However we got there before midday [...]

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Piwi Deserted Us

Wed, 3 May, 2006 – 10:36 PM MDT

Today I was thinking I must get a shot of Piwi during our
holiday. It was then that I realise Piwi the Kiwi isn’t
even with us. Attempts to contact him at home in Bristol
have been futile. It seems he still has hard feelings about
the Rainbow Warrior bombing. Actually that would explain
why there are so few Kiwi’s [...]

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The crass Webbers hit St-Troup

Tue, 2 May, 2006 – 10:15 PM MDT

Well we aimed to hit St-Tropez but as Lonely Planet put
it “People who do wrong in life are made to drive to St-Tropez
when they die”. We certainly know what they meant and it
wasn’t even August or a public holiday.
Stopping in Ste Maxime visited a boulangerie and picked
up a tarte Tropénne for breakfast. It’s a local [...]

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Côte d’Azur Continues

Mon, 1 May, 2006 – 10:15 PM MDT

The 1st of may is a bank holiday in France. It seems to
be associated with giving people flowers as a over people
were selling small banquets.
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We made good use of our 4×4 beasty and dropped some Canadians
in town. After that we drove to the car rental and swapped
our 4×4 for a diesel Volkswagon Polo. I [...]

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