Last night was cooler so we all slept well and as we got ready to leave a lovely English couple about our age who had been at reception with us when we checked in and had spoken to us whenever they saw us after that came up to me for a chat and then asked "do you know David from New Zealand?" "Yes" I said "he's my brother" thinking he couldn't possibly be serious. "Really" he said "I met him at Monte Carlo several years ago". After establishing that there were se...

After an early morning wake up from the resident rooster and a few bellows from the cows as they traipsed back into the cow shed we woke to find that we had run out of gas over night so the fridge was flashing at us. Good timing I guess as we will be able to get a new bottle in the UK but we needed to get some boiling water from the others for breakfast. Poor Lidka managed to tip an entire cup of tea over her while in bed this morning and it went right through al...

Market day in Blois like so many towns is Saturday and often Wednesday as well. So this morning we trundled off back into the town centre to see what was on offer. The weather had changed and it was overcast with the odd shower but still warm at about 18. As we had 450kms to travel to get within sticking distance of Calais for our sailing back to the UK in the morning we each did our own thing and then met up for coffee. It was mainly a produce market and the qua...

Not quite so hot today as we had rain overnight but it eventually warmed to a very pleasant 23 degrees. It is raining again as I write this unfortunately as we have a walk to town to do and a light show at the Blois Chateaux to watch. We left our noisy campsite at about 9am and decided to split up. Mandy wanted to see one of the other big three chateaux and the rest of us wanted to get to the town of Blois and see what was on offer there. Arriving at Blois we fou...