Now I’m not one to complain (oh, who am I kidding?) but after our EasyJet flight was cancelled from Paris to Nice because of flight crew problems last June and we were given a form outlining the compensation we would be entitled to, only to be told three weeks later that our flight had been […]
The return
It’s one thing to go away on a trip. It’s another thing to come back. What happens when the dream trip is over? At first it’s okay. For one thing, you’re so exhausted you don’t care where you are. And then you get to phone all your friends and everyone says, “How was France? I […]
Renting a motorbike in France ie will I live through this day?
What happens when your boyfriend decides renting a motorbike in France is a marvellous idea, and you think riding a great white shark through the Atlantic Ocean is more sensible? Read on to see if the relationship can survive. Renting a motorbike in France, is it a good idea? After a big fight with my […]
Easyjet cancelled my flight- arghhhh!
I’m not knocking Paris, but when you’re all set to leave Paris and fly to Nice for your 6-day seaside holiday, it’s a major pain in the arse when, after an interminable and chaotic lineup, first the computers go down so you can’t check in, then a small group ahead of you turns into a […]
Paris in a heat wave … go to the Louvre
It would have been pretty embarrassing to go to Paris and not go to the Louvre, especially when our apartment is right across the street from the gargantuan museum. Our balcony overlooks the east end of it and we’ve spent a lot of time watching other people go in, come out, and mill around. Not […]
Our last night in the Cevennes
It’s our last night at the chateau Bussas. Our French wilderness idyll is over. Every day since Wednesday Mark and I have had a running conversation of, “oh no, I can’t believe we have only 3/2/1 more days” or “where has the time/day/morning gone?” or “how can it be over already.” Then, last night, Mark […]
Scary Roads of the Cévennes
Robert Louis Stevenson may have trod this perilous area with a donkey named Modestine in his short novel Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes written in 1879, but that was nothing compared to driving the scary roads of the Cévennes with a GPS, a difficult finicky animal Mark and I have named, appropriately, Modestine. […]
In the middle of nowhere
The good thing about renting this villa in France is that it was actually there when we showed up. After reading a trashy novel about a group of people who rented a villa in St Tropez only to find that it was an abandoned wreck I was mighty pleased when we turned up deep in […]
Renting a villa in France … or an apartment in Paris … or a cheap hotel … or or or
My plans to rent a villa in the South of France this summer have changed once again. First it was one month in one place, maybe in the hilltop town of Vence, a stone’s throw from Nice and the Med. Now the plans are two weeks in the middle of nowhere in a 12th century […]
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