Our new campsite (Camping la Brouquère) near Gondrin turned out to be a little gem! Little, in that it comprises only 20 pitches. Our “terrace” is almost 90 metres in length and is home to just three pitches. That’s us…
4. RURAL SOUTH-WESTERN FRANCE
Dax is a centre of thermal baths. They advertise cures for all sorts of rheumatic conditions, but they seem to be protracted affairs lasting weeks and there’s a lot of hot mud involved. While a swim in nice clear, warm…
3. A LA FRANCE
We chose a Sunday to relocate to France, the day when only a few lorries are on the move. The motorway out of Spain is a fairly exciting sort of road. Bendy and hilly, with lots of tunnels and viaducts. …
2. DISASTER STRIKES AT COFFEE TIME!
Before I move on here, I have been much criticised by my editor-in-chief for my brief comment about Chistmas “coming and going”. It actually came with much effort on everyone’s part. Two beautiful trees, Christmas decorations everywhere and heaps of…
1. WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?
Sorry about the abrupt end of the Australian saga. A few things happened and time was lost. However, I made a threat to reveal our interactions with the local constabulary. So, just to cover those before getting on the ferry…
8. CARS AND LIGHTS!
I’m so far behind that it’s now 2023! So, we wish everyone a Happy New Year. … and I’ll get a bit out of sequence now … While we were in Samford we came across the Ford Anglia from the…
7. SUNSHINE COAST
Jack took us for a swim one afternoon. Well, more accurately, we took him to a swimming gala at Perigian 25 km north of base. All the schools round here appear to have Olympic-sized pools! Jack was, for everyone’s convenience,…
6. MELBOURNE AND BACK TO THE WARM!
Forty minutes south of Melbourne city there is a hill overlooking Port Phillip Bay. (It might even have been “an hill”, grammatically speaking!) The first British explorers entered the bay in 1802 and subsequently named the hill Arthurs Seat due…
5. SUNSHINE TO MELBOURNE.
My sister, Elizabeth (aka Liz or Bij by me) had a few days in Queensland with an ex-neighbour of hers from her early days in Australia at Mornington. They had booked a place on Bribie Island so we took the…
4. STANTHORPE AND BACK.
Well, now it’s time for our first foray away from. We have arranged to visit Glenda’s cousin Beryl in Stanthorpe out in the Granite County. But first we have a two night stay, glamping at Mount Cotton. We need to…