Au Revoir France

France has been good to us. It’s presented us with beautiful days, albeit some hotter than we’d like, it’s provided amazing sights for our eyes, gorgeous food for our bellies. We’ve seen nothing more than a few drops of rain; we’ve exercised our bodies with its paths and cycleways and our minds with its chateaux, […]

Lost In France

The words of Bonnie Tyler are ringing around my head: I’m lost in France. It was an inauspicious start – we thought Heathrow was the worst airport in the world but, arriving at Charles de Gaulle, we may have to revise our opinion. The queue for passport control stretches practically to Heathrow. Fortunately we remember […]