Road trip - day 15 - Saturday Leaving day, up at 7am to be out for 9.30am Cleaned, packed up & squeezed everything into the car! Only blip was knocking a picture off the stairs when taking the vacuum up, glass everywhere!! Christiana arrived a little later than we had arranged, fortunately she was ok with the broken picture. We were a little short in change for the heating charge & the tourism tax & she let us off a couple of euros short. We set o...

Road trip - day 14 - Friday We are vegetarians away in Europe & have only had one pizza in 2 weeks ..... pretty good going!! I am also starting to really struggle thinking of the English words to use, goodness knows what I'll be like in another 3 weeks! Especially when's French isn't really improving, although G is getting better at holding full blown conversations. Today was a late start, our last lazy get up in Franche Comte, Eastern France. Started t...

Road trip - day 12 - wednesday Up & out a bit earlier today after the first breakfast of the trip to involve croissants! Praline croissants yum yum! We decided to head off for Montbenoit & visit the Abby. First we went to Pontarlier as we had seen the signs from there & there was a small market near to the parking. We had a quick look around & decided it might be cheaper to get a few bits from the stalls rather than visit a supermarket!! Yoghurt...

Road trip - day 11 - Tuesday Very chilly & misty; we were actually in the clouds first thing with a temp of 6c rising to 11c later in the day Headed out to explore the possibility of taking a train ride to Switzerland over the next few days. The lady at Pontarlier Gare didn't speak English but was very helpful; we asked about visiting Lausanne but knew after just a few minutes that we wouldn't be able to negotiate a conversation about options of going furt...

Road trip - day 9 - Sunday A real nothing day. Irrationally unhappy about the Gite .... no dishwasher & an overwhelming feeling that this was an old persons home that had been bought & nothing much has been changed or thrown out. Also a bit fed up of pine trees & windy roads. Stayed in bed till maybe noon/1pm ish. Grumpy, emotional & unhappy!!! At least the bed clothes are ours from home & feel 'safe'. Every stage of getting up feels like a...