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Jane is a constant learner, traveler and aspiring writer

Vichy, Digoin, Rouvray & Vendeuvre sur Barse

Vichy was a beautiful city with lots of art deco buildings and cafes, plus a very early art deco cathedral.  They also have naturally carbonated spring water bubbling in the town which I didn't realise until I tried some and it was quite a shock to the senses (good shock though).  The Opera house also had [...]

By | September 23rd, 2015|Categories: France|0 Comments

Toulouse, Gaillac, Rodez & Brioude

Toulouse is the home of AirBus and also the European Space Agency so we headed to the ESA for a visit.  They were very generous and let us look around the place - well the visitor centre anyway.  It was really interesting to see so much of the Soviet space race included there which you certainly [...]

By | September 20th, 2015|Categories: France|0 Comments

St Remy, Avignon, Cap d’adge & Carcassonne

St Remy de Provence was recommended to us so we headed through there, it is a stunning little village with a little market and plenty of art studios to peruse. Avignon was somewhere on my list - somewhere along the line I had it linked to Arthurian legend but can't for the life of me remember [...]

By | September 16th, 2015|Categories: France|1 Comment

Goats & French Bullfighting

Leaving St. Tropez we headed along the Cote d'azur a little longer enjoying the beautiful scenery in that area and wishing we could afford a small plot of land there.  The building planners in that area have done a fantastic job of packing lots of houses in without really noticing that they are there. Our stopover was in [...]

By | September 14th, 2015|Categories: France|0 Comments

San Remo, Monaco & St. Tropez

After the excitement of the Grand Prix we meandered our way towards the French Riviera via Acqua Terme which is an old spa town.  We stayed over on the local sosta / aire there and went to the spa in the town centre hotel the next morning - have to say it was very disappointing as [...]

By | September 10th, 2015|Categories: France, Italy|0 Comments

Carpi, Ferrari and meeting new friends

Verona was hot but hotter was still to come as we headed further south onto the plains just north of the Tuscan mountains.  We stopped at Carpi which was a free stopover and had full services and was conveniently on the way to Modena and Maranello (home of Ferrari). When we pulled up we spotted a UK [...]

By | August 31st, 2015|Categories: Italy|0 Comments

Verona

Verona is officially my favourite Italian city - possibly it's my favourite city in the entire world actually but as I haven't been everywhere I can't be sure yet. Last year was our first time there when I spotted that Ludovico Einaudi (an Italian pianist and composer) was playing at Arena de Verona - well I [...]

By | August 30th, 2015|Categories: Italy|0 Comments

Lake Garda

While the border crossings aren't obvious one thing that does change is fuel prices so doing some research we knew that Italy was more expensive than Austria, so before we crossed the border we made one last fill up at €1.129 per litre.  The first petrol station in Italy had a price of €1.459 so that's [...]

By | August 29th, 2015|Categories: Italy|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments

Kitzbuhel, Austria and Lienz

After Salzburg Kitzbühel seemed a natural next stop and as the home of the most famous downhill ski race in the world it was on our list of must-sees. Austria is not great for motorhomes – or rather the Tirol region isn’t – apparently they don’t like motorhomes stopping anywhere there and they don’t provide anywhere (except [...]

By | August 25th, 2015|Categories: Austria|Tags: , |1 Comment

Bad Reichenhall & Salzburg

From Herrenchiemsee we headed towards Salzburg and the Austrian border.  Thinking it would be easier to get the train to Salzburg rather than try and find parking we found a little stop at Bad Reichenhall.  It was a beautiful town at the foothills of the Alps and we spent the evening at the local Rupertus Therme [...]

By | August 23rd, 2015|Categories: Austria|0 Comments

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