A friend had recommended Galicia as a beautiful part of Spain to explore so we decided to base ourselves there for a week. We were immediately struck by how different the landscape was to what we tend to think of… Continue reading

We arrived in Porto to beautiful sunshine and a 2m height restriction in the hotel car park lift. Not a welcome we needed after 6 hours of driving! The hotel staff could not have been more helpful and we were… Continue reading

To break the trip from basque to Porto, we had an overnight stop in downtown Leon. The trip unfortunately took us through the Leon district wildfires during a thunderstorm. Late afternoon saw the sky turn dark orange and it looked… Continue reading

What Google suggested would be a 4 hour drive from La Rochelle turned somehow into 7 with some heavy traffic around Bordeaux and a ‘necessary detouring ’ into Saint Emilion wine territory! A stop at Cap Breton beach for a… Continue reading

Another early start to set off for La Rochelle as kids were super excited to meet up with their school friends who had kindly invited us to crash their family holiday at Sandaya for a few days. The 4 hour… Continue reading

We arrived in Paris and had our first issue with the roof box, needing to remove it before parking in the underground garage requiring 8 carefully packed bags to be thrown into any space left in the car. Turns out… Continue reading

Sunday was our main day in Epernay and it seemed inappropriate not to start the day in the spirit of the region, so we opened a bottle of blanc en blancs, champagne with only Chardonnay (white grapes and white juice)… Continue reading

Day 3: Belgium to Epernay:  The journey from Belgium to Epernay was fairly bleak as we set off in torrential rain that seemed to follow the storm for over half the journey. We had the Eurovision dominated playlist from the… Continue reading

Nestled around several lakes and wooded areas sits a series of log cabin style accommodations. No cars are allowed on site so we attempt to compartmentalise our luggage for the month and bring only what we need for these three… Continue reading