Blog in France

Blog In France Goes Swiss Chris and I have recently come back from a few days in Switzerland, where we stayed with our lovely friends Paul and Michael in a bustling village in the canton of Solothurn. It was our first holiday together for fourteen years, and the first child-free...

All Slow Down The new speed limit of 80 kph on roads that used to be 90 kph has been in force for ten days now. These roads are routes départementales – single carriageway roads with no central reservation i.e. minor roads. I’m getting used to trundling around 11.11% slower...

Sarzay Last week we had an outing to the Chateau de Sarzay, a beautiful castle not too far away in neighbouring Indre. We’d last visited it in 2011 so felt it was time to have another look, and show it off to our visitor, Jackie. You can tell it’s worth...

Several Liths and a Limax: a trip to the Monts de Guéret. We’re rather fond of the Monts de Guéret, a very hilly (with an average altitude of 686m) area of chaotic granite close to the principal town of Creuse, and so we took Jackie, who’s visiting, for a look....

There’s a rather nice wood about 45 minutes from here that we go to from time to time – the Bois de Lassoux near Budelière. We have fond memories of it as it’s where we did our first official llama trek way back in 2007. So, having a free day...