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A hot and dusty drive east

A blaring horn cheekily announced the arrival of the local ‘boulanger’ van awaking us from […]

The day sailing from Newhaven to Dieppe proved to be as busy as our heads. After […]

The countdown to a trip usually begins for us at three months to go… In […]

We needed to head north before the predicted stormy winds and wet weather swept across […]

After a morose couple of days it was time to lighten up and head into […]

Having learnt much about the First World War history of Verdun we decided to visit […]

From Metz, our route west and north to Calais took us past Verdun where we […]

We headed west to the border with France. Our last day in Germany was spent […]

We left the aire under the three bridges, which had become packed with vans overnight, […]

We ploughed along the busy A8 heading west. The route east was the way to […]