Traveling the Countryside
We're now in Bordeaux, vine country, stretches for miles & miles, fields of grape vines, chateauxs, churches & the most amasing, ancient towns, & round-a-bouts!
Did the French invent the roundabout or do they just think they're fantastic? I'll be very happy to never see another one again, they are every few hundred yards but at least when you're lost you can keep going round in circles until you decide which direction to go in, & we've been doing our fair share of getting lost!
I'm loving the country roads & I don't have to go fast & can be a real tourist as I putt along checking it all out.
We had our first swim in the French seas & it was cold & refreshing, after so many hot days in Paris it was nice to have a swim. We found ourselves on another Island, Ile de Ré on the west coast near La Rochelle, full of ancient old forts & bunkers from the war.
The car's going well & usefull as we find ourselves running out of money, we sleep in the car & sneak into caravan parks for showers & to fill our water bottles, our diet of bagettes, ham & cheese is still sustaining us, with a bit of fruit in between & then we visit the fab patisseries but we've even found a supermarket that sells cheap wine to wash it all down with!
Our plans have changed slightly as an interview & trial day for a school has come up, so back to London before heading off to Germany where Kyle is very keen to check out.
We've decided it's too far & too fast to try & see any more than that at this point, so we're happy to see two countries reasonably well, even still it's pretty fast as there's so much. I've never done so much driving in all my life!!!
Choà for now, MAZZ & KYLE
Did the French invent the roundabout or do they just think they're fantastic? I'll be very happy to never see another one again, they are every few hundred yards but at least when you're lost you can keep going round in circles until you decide which direction to go in, & we've been doing our fair share of getting lost!
I'm loving the country roads & I don't have to go fast & can be a real tourist as I putt along checking it all out.
We had our first swim in the French seas & it was cold & refreshing, after so many hot days in Paris it was nice to have a swim. We found ourselves on another Island, Ile de Ré on the west coast near La Rochelle, full of ancient old forts & bunkers from the war.
The car's going well & usefull as we find ourselves running out of money, we sleep in the car & sneak into caravan parks for showers & to fill our water bottles, our diet of bagettes, ham & cheese is still sustaining us, with a bit of fruit in between & then we visit the fab patisseries but we've even found a supermarket that sells cheap wine to wash it all down with!
Our plans have changed slightly as an interview & trial day for a school has come up, so back to London before heading off to Germany where Kyle is very keen to check out.
We've decided it's too far & too fast to try & see any more than that at this point, so we're happy to see two countries reasonably well, even still it's pretty fast as there's so much. I've never done so much driving in all my life!!!
Choà for now, MAZZ & KYLE
posted by mazz&kyle at 4:19 AM
1 Comments:
Gday Mazz
Just sitting on a cold dark melbourne morning reading your latest story. I want to be there!! sounds like you're starting to become quite the travelling veterans.
I know its not quite you're scene but if you find time to visit some of the WWI battle sites in the north of France on your way back to london go for it because they are fascinating and very sobering.
Hope the job interview goes well
love gary and jo.
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