This trip to France was to be our last excursion out of the UK before the second date slated for Brexit. What will happen in the future is a bit of an unknown, but needless to say that our longer term plans for use of our house in France will likely be impacted. We are not impressed. Our long weekend started by travelling to Southend on Sea in Essex on the Wednesday evening, where we spent the night at the Park Inn overlooking the famous pier. It was dark when...

We were staying in Malestroit, where we have a small holiday home, for a week in early October and it is always nice to visit new places when we have the chance to do so. After a later start than planned - due to a suspected rodent incursion in the attic at the house - we headed around 120km north to coastal area of Brittany. Our first port of call was Binic which took around 1 hour and 40 minutes to reach by car. Given the later start than we had hoped for, we...

This is certainly not our first weekend in Paris, and it will not be the last, but it may have been the first time we have had a trip to the French capital as a Christmas present to each other . . . . even though this was March! Travelling on the Friday evening we joined the Eurostar service at 2001 from London St Pancras to Paris Gare du Nord. Travelling in Standard Premier we arrived into Paris at just after 2315 (local time) and then hopped onto bus 31 that s...

We had been to Vannes on a number of occasions but these have normally been at a weekend - on a Saturday the place is rammed as it is market day, on a Sunday it is quiet as the shops are closed. This time however we visited on a Friday and thought we would make a day of it in Vannes which is about a twenty minute drive from our French house. Having parked at the old port area of Vannes we wandered alongside the boats and kept going heading out to the Bay of Morb...

It was probably five or more years ago that we agreed with friends, Simon and Linda, that we should visit Paris with the aim of also taking in the show at Moulin Rouge and in 2017 we managed it! Our Friday evening journey began with a trip on Eurostar from London St Pancras to Paris Gare du Nord - the 19.01 departure was a 'classic', or old, Eurostar which we much prefer over the modern trains that are being introduced. Simon and Linda had travelled to Paris ear...