Travel

One of the coolest places to see in France (in my opinion) is Cirque de Navacelles, described by wikipedia: The Cirque de Navacelles is large cirque landform, located towards the southern edge of the Massif Central mountain range in France. It is located near Saint-Maurice-Navacelles and Blandas between the Hérault département and the Gard département. After the cirque’s formation by …

The village of Cantobre was an unexpected find on our journey with Xander’s mother last week.   As we were driving along I saw something up on a hill and as we turned the bend, this is what we found. The entire village of about 30 houses was perched up on top of these cliffs.  It was much higher than it …

Yesterday (my birthday!) we decided to come home.  We’d been in France for over a week and were both feeling like we were getting a little tired of sight seeing.   It was time to pack up and head home so that we could be home in time to have a nice long weekend to chill out before returning to work. …

It’s hard to believe it’s been a week since we arrived in France.   Since we got here it’s been nonstop and I have literally hundreds of photos to sort through.   This will probably happen when we arrive home finally, because I’ve not found the time since I’ve been here, barring the odd quickie, like this one! It’s amazing the things …

On Sunday Xander and I left Bailey with Xander’s mother and took off to the town of Sete for the day. It’s a beautiful town right on the Mediterranean, which I never did swim in by the way. That didn’t stop me from getting my yearly ‘first sun sunburn’ though.  Not only did I get one, but I got a …

My legs are so sore, if nothing else France is teaching me how desperately out of shape I am.  Especially mom-in-law’s stairs in her five-level house! It’s beautiful indeed, but my chubby little legs cried for mercy when I stood at the bottom and realised that our bedroom was on the top floor. It’s worth the climb though, see that …

Yesterday myself, Hubby, Mom-in-Law, and Dog went exploring! We followed the above route and saw a TON of stuff.   Some were planned, others were just lucky finds.  Some were so awesome I’m not going to talk about them now because they totally deserve to have more time spent on them. The first place we stopped was no less awesome but …

This is what I see from the sofa in my mother in law’s living room.   She lives in what must be one of the most beautiful villages in all of Frace and every time I look out the window I get this ‘OMG I am in France!’ feeling.  It’s really cool. Notice the Siamese cat in the top window?   I …

This is going to be a short one because I’m busy being on holiday!  We made it to France safe and sound.  It was a long drive but it was a nice one with a lot of nice scenery. The weather was beautiful today and we walked around the city centre of Pezenas, the town we are staying in. Ok …

Well we leave tomorrow morning and almost everything is ready.  Our clothes are packed, the animal care has all been sorted out (thanks to our wonderful neighbours who petsit for us when we are away) and we’ve stocked up on corny Top songs of the 60’s type roadtrip cd’s. We hope to get to somewhere around Lyon tomorrow and will …

This restaurant has been famous on the Internet for years.  You can see photos of it on pretty much every site that deals with funny pictures… especially of road signs and billboards. Anytime I’ve told people that I’ve been there, they’ve never believed me.  So now I have proof. The A&K Lick-A-Chick is about a 5 minute drive from my …