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The Wolf…
I did not know that there are wolves in this part of France. Brittany is in Northern France and is not mountainous but mainly coastal and not a natural environment that I would associate with wolves. There are forested areas but it is mainly agricultural and open farmland with a network of villages, towns and…
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Family..a sense of belonging
After a long 7 hour drive south from the Pas de Calais, across the northern coast of Normandy and into Brittany we have reached our family. We had planned to stop over and see them en route to the Loire Valley for a few days but we will stay the rest of the week here…
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Le Touquet…Paris by the sea
Le Touquet is quite a distance from Paris even though it is called Paris by the sea. If you arrived in Paris expecting it to be close by for a paddle in the sea you’d be disappointed. Le Touquet is an unusual French seaside resort with large thatched roofed villas in wide boulevards amongst the…
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The joys of slow travel…
Slow travel or rather no or little travel for this vacation so far is teaching us the benefits of staying in one place (rather than our usual hopping around in the camper van) and we are discovering hidden gems right under our nose. We originally passed through Berck Sur Mer on the French Opal Coast…
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There are a lot of dogs in tonight!..
said the waiter at the restaurant to us. Pardon? Did I hear you right? Yes he repeated.. “There are a lot of dogs in tonight” “There are 2 large ones over there, a large one at the back and 2 smaller dogs at the table over there” “Where would your dog like to sit”? Only…
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When travel plans go wrong…Counting our blessings…
The story of our French adventure continues and we are learning lots as we go and very grateful for God’s wisdom and guidance in lots of ways seen and unseen. We arranged a taxi from the hotel on Saturday morning to take us to the local supermarket, Carrefour where we were told we could hire…
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The wheels have come off the bus…
Well not literally..but the camper van is sadly not well. We left our campsite on Friday to travel south and after 30km the van’s engine suddenly decided to die on us. Fortunately, we were able to safely stop as the engine lost all power and the steering went. In France most things come to a…
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