I got some funny looks when i said that I’d like to stop at a supermarket, just for a look. I dunno about you, but supermarkets in other countries are fascinating to me. It’s the difference in the everyday stuff that shows you what a place is really about, and generally you find tasty stuff […]

There isn’t really a whole lot more to this place apart from just going there and being able to say ‘I saw it with my own eyes’. Luckily we left it late enough to avoid the peak of the tourist hordes, but that also meant that the main attraction was already closed. Looking at the […]

Just up the road from that gorgeous wee village was a garden that was open to visitors during the summer. It didn’t seem huge from the outside, but when we followed the path on the map we were given it took ages to get around, especially with stopping every two minutes to look at details […]

Well. We weren’t far into the trip and i was already blown away by the countryside and the little villages we had passed through. From château de Carrouges we headed for Saint-Céneri-le-Gérei, which is well deserving of its Les Plus Beaux Villages de France status. It’s particularly tiny and on the day we visited only […]

  I’m going to have to start posting more than one shot on each page (like Ryan’s post) if i want to get through a fraction of these french pics before christmas! Still at the château de Carrouges which was a pretty short drive from our b&b, the fantastic Maison Laudiere where we were looked […]

We hadn’t even reached the first overnight stop and this is the sort of scenery we were passing, it was as charming and pretty as i ever dared to imagine it could be :)

This was the first ‘omg stop the bike i want to take a photo’ of the trip, I spotted a row of apple trees and a green painted fence. It was worth the u-turn :)