ManVanNoPlan Visits Watten, Ypres & Langemark in the first blog of our 2022 Spring tour of Europe. Wednesday 2nd of March In the last Blog we had just landed at Calais and we headed for Watten a village only a 35 minute drive away so really handy as a first/last stop for the ferry/tunnel. We…
7 Great Coastal Aires within 3 hours of CalaisWe have stayed on coastal many Aires in Northern France on our trips abroad and I thought I would let you know about some of our favourites as you may well want to take a trip abroad in the near future. These Aires are perfect for a…
2020 – Homeward bound from SpainWe had been on Camping le Jardin at El Campello since the 5th of January and had been thoroughly enjoying the experience and the company of our fellow Brits as well as the other nationalities and were not due to leave the site until the 1st of April. Our two…
2019 – You will travel in a land of marvels – ChambordI have been forced into wheeling out the ‘you will travel in a land of marvels’ quotation from Jules Verne again as we have been fortunate enough to visit another marvel, Château Chambord in the Loire valley, not far from Blois. Chambord was built…
2019 – You will travel in a land of marvels – CarcassonneOn our six month trip last year we encountered two ‘marvels’ in all that time, Mont St Michel and the Alhambra Palace, but on this trip we have been to two in a week, the Palace of Versailles, and now Carcassonne, and this one…
2019 – You will travel in a land of marvels – VersaillesRegular followers of this blog will know that once in a while on our travels we visit somewhere so special that it requires its own extended page and The Palace of Versailles is the third to warrant that honour after Mont St Michel in…
2018 – Trefumel and Memories Who remembers the classic 1975 hit ‘Memories’, sung by Gladys Knight and the Pips? The second half of the song lyrics are very apt to the subject matter of this blog post – memories. Sing along if you remember how it goes… Why does it always seem the past is…
2017 – You will travel in a land of marvels – Mont St MichelThe above quotation by Jules Verne could so easily have been coined to describe Mont St Michel in Normandy, the first true marvel of this 2017/2018 trip. No matter how many times you visit, and this is our fourth, you are bound…