Ding ding! This was actually the doorbell of Manoir Francis, our last stopover in france before we hit the eurotunnel. Found through a website with an amazing selection of quirky and beautiful looking hotels and guest houses (don’t click the link if you want to keep your brain from drifting off into a french vacance […]

I wasn’t quite sure what to expect of the champagne tour. I’ve been on whisky (& whiskey!) and guinness tours but the process of creating fizzy wine was completely new to me.  Sadly, the whole thing was underground so there was none of that beautiful light I’d been enjoying throughout the holiday so far. We […]

To be honest I wasn’t really expecting very much of Reims at all, maybe because I’d never heard of it until we started doing our itinerary, and maybe because I feel very silly when I try to pronounce it properly. It’s impossible to say with only a slight french accent in the middle of an […]

After our visit to the castle on the hill which was slightly damp and cool, we descended back into the valley to discover a bit of a warm day. It’s tempting just to keep on driving when you’ve got a nice breeze keeping the temperature under control but when i saw this spot with the […]

We visited a Proper Castle. I don’t have any pictures of the whole thing, to be honest i don’t think we even saw the whole thing from the outside since there are so many walls and turrets and sticky outy bits. What I loved was the ironwork – scrolltastic! I may have gone a bit […]

I hadn’t realised just how flat the country had been until we got near Alsace. The road climbed, and wound, and climbed, and wound some more and the little road signs with the altitude got more frequent. We were greeted with a few open vistas which i’m sure ryan will have better pictures of – […]

We had an overnight stop in Troyes between Orne and Dijon but the first leg of the journey was quite the endurance test and it really was little more than just an overnight stop – we hardly ventured further than the strangely titled and not particularly chic ‘Hippopotamus’ restaurant next to the hotel – but […]