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Switzerland
Switzerland was all about fabulous friends, magnificent mountains, trains and chocolate. In fact we hardly ate any chocolate when we were there, but chocolate shopswere everywhere. We arrived in Morges, on the shore of Lake Geneva, to the open-armed welcome of all the...
Lodeve and Langue Doc
My folks Gaye and Ron have a share in an apartment in Lodeve in the Langue Doc region of France (for some years) but we weren’t sure that we’d ever get a chance to visit. We arrived on a warm afternoon to 1 Place de la Rebublique to find a big (for 2 people) white...
Paris!
Beautiful beautiful Paris. How to choose where to go and what to see in our short 2.5 days there? For example there is a museum for just about everything you could imagine – counterfeiting, magic, eroticism, fans, freemasonry, clocks, smoking, perfume, tennis,...
In which Mr and Mrs Goshawk become truly middle-aged
We were renamed by Janet at one B&B who when booking a table for us (at the 400 year old pub with the entrance to the smugglers tunnel) forgot our names and saw something that made her say “Goshawk”! We had a hire car and a couple of spare days. The surf was...
Lands End to Lamorna
Porthcurno must be one of Britain's most beautiful beaches - look at it, would YOU think that was England? It was a warm day and the sea had been taunting and inviting us all day as we grew hotter and sweatier. So we got into our togs, dove in and nearly...
In which we begin another walk in the south-west
After the slightly stern grey granite beauty of Edinburgh, St Ives was all human scale whitewashed and welcoming. Seaside fun for all the family with an obligatory brightly coloured plastic spade for everyone. Evoking Enid Blyton for me. In fact I’m sure the Five went...