May 2017 - Page 2 of 3 - currentlyaway

Mont Cenis pass

Researching the pass before leaving home we had read that it was ‘easy’ on a […]

The winding river Arc flows through a valley known as the Porte de Maurienne. The […]

Overnight we formed our plan. 30 miles seemed to the tipping point at which whatever […]

Annecy, like Noyers, was a trip destination based on our charity stall book of ‘100 […]

We left early against the commuting traffic out of Bourg-en-Bresse and onto a local road […]

At Bourg-en-Bresse we remembered why we knew the name… Bresse is the famous French chicken, […]

The forecast rains pelted us and we stopped overnight at Beaune, the jewel of Burgundy, […]

Earlier in the year I had bought a book from a charity stall promising ‘100 […]

France was forecast for three days of torrential and disruptive downpours, culminating in the small […]

To borrow heavily from Dickens: It was the best of times, it was the worst […]