For the first time since owning the house in France we have decided to catch the train from our local station at Questembert. The station is about 12km from Malestroit and is on the main line between Vannes (population 50,000), Redon (population 10,000) and Nantes (population 280,000) a journey of, if you catch a fast train, about one hour and twenty minutes from Vannes to Nantes. It is fair to say that SNCF have a fairly erratic timetable, one that makes no se...

Well this it, the day I have been waiting for for some time has finally arrived. It may only be the start of a holiday, but it is a holiday with a difference, it is one without thinking that I have to be back at work on Monday morning and that really is a nice feeling to have. So the journey begins with a stay in Malestroit, a place that we liked when we first visited (probably in the summer of 2006) and a place in which we have now purchased a second home - in f...

Arriving into Paris Gare du Nord at around 2315 it was nice to meet up with a few friends who were still out finishing off their meal in Paris so it made sense to join them for cocktails before turning in for the night, after all with the one hour time difference between the UK and France it was still fairly early. On the Saturday, my 40th birthday events started with breakfast at Fauchon with Simon. Linda and Heather before we headed across to meet with Heather...