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French Misadventures 2023

Sunday, 24th September 2023

Our summer jollies to the Alps this year had mixed results…

Cap Blanc-Nez

Wednesday, 24th August 2022

One final instalment to the Chamonix ’22 trip and the journey home – back when Ian and I went out to France in June we stopped in a super cheap hotel in Calais the night before our early ferry back to Dover. We ate dinner in a simple bar in town and noted that the …

Vertus, and Champagne!

Wednesday, 24th August 2022

It was time to leave Chamonix, the weather was poor there for a few days so an early escape from the rain promised sunny dry rock and adventure elsewhere. We plotted a route home via what looked like a very interesting limestone crag in the middle of the flatlands of the beautiful Champagne region…

Champagne & the Great War – weird extremes, Luxury & Suffering

Thursday, 3rd August 2017

On the way home from the Briancon we broke the journey down by calling in on the Champagne region to find out if any deals were to be had. They were! We grabbed a box of six bottles of Canard – Duchene for much much less than we pay back in the UK. 🙂

Springtime France

Wednesday, 25th May 2016

We’re recently back from a couple of weeks in France, what an amazing (and weird?) series of spring weather conditions we had though…

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