Road trip - day 17 - Monday Back home it's bank holiday Monday The wind has gone & the weather forecast is good - sunny blue sky's Breakfast outside, a bit chilly as it's out of the sun. Heading today towards Orange but just calling at Bollene to see if the market looks like its worth a visit. Decided that it was possibly a bit late to do both so carried on to Orange specifically to see the roman theatre. The Theatre Ancien was SPECTACULAR!! Very impres...

Road trip - day 16 - Sunday Very late wake up! 10.30am & still in bed!!!! Reading & listening to the wind rushing through the garden & rattling the shutters. Still no wifi, can see the connection every so often but the password isn't working, need to ask Blanche about it. On getting up the sky was blue & rest not too cold despite the wind. We sat outside for breakfast; tried one of the new teas, had a shake (need to experiment with the mix!), ...

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 13 - Thursday May Day & Lausanne Day!! Set the alarm for 7.30am; the earliest we have been up in a while. Out of the chalet window all is grey, we are actually in the cloud. We aimed to be out by 9.30am for the train at Frasne leaving at 10.46am. We actually left 10 mins early & got to the station shortly after 10am. We had realised the day before that Mayday is an important bank holiday. Everything was shut along the route to Frasne;...