France – Caen
Caen is a port city and capital of Calvados department in northern France's Normandy region. Its centre features the Château de Caen, a circa 1060 castle built by William the Conqueror. Caen is a vivacious city, ten minutes from the…
Travel journal
Our journey around Europe by motorhome, post by post and newest first: where we went, where we parked and what we thought.
France – Étretat
Étretat is a town on the north coast of France. It’s known for the striking rock formations carved out of its white cliffs, including the Porte d'Aval arch and L'Aiguille (the Needle), a pillar rising from the sea. It is…
France – Veules Les Roses
Veules les Roses has barely 600 inhabitants and is in Normandy, specifically in the department of Seine-Maritime and its beach belongs to the famous Alabaster Coast, which since 2017 it has been on the list of "most beautiful towns in…
France – Sotteville-sur-Mer
Sotteville-sur-Mer is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region, with a population of 388 (1999). It is part of the Dieppe district. In 1890 a wooden staircase was built to facilitate fishermen's access to the beach.
France – Berck
Berck is a commune in the northern French department of Pas-de-Calais. It lies within the Marquenterre Regional Park, an ornithological nature reserve. It is known for its seal beach, where a colony of seals has settled in Authie Bay, and…
England – Broadway
Broadway is a large village and civil parish in the Cotswolds. It is in the far southeast of Worcestershire, close to the Gloucestershire border, and it is sometimes referred to as the "Jewel of the Cotswolds". Broadway is nestled at…
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England – The Slaughters
Upper and Lower Slaughter - the slightly macabre name that comes from the Old English for 'muddy place' - are linked by the tiny River Eye, a slow-moving stream crossed by two footbridges, a tributary to the River Windrush.
England – Stratford upon Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon, a medieval market town in England’s West Midlands, is the 16th-century birthplace of William Shakespeare. Possibly the most famous writer in the English language.
England – Coughton Court
Coughton Court is an English Tudor country house, situated between Studley and Alcester in Warwickshire and it has been home to the Throckmorton family for 600 years, one of the UK's oldest catholic families. It stands on 25 acres of…
France – Calais
Caláis is the first passenger port in France. It's known for being located on the coast of the Pas of Calais, or what is the same, the narrowest point of the English Channel. Therefore, it is the closest French city…
France – Saint Quentin
Saint-Quentin is a city in the Aisne department, northern France and it has been declared a Historic-Artistic city, with buildings of many styles, ranging from Gothic to Neoclassical, passing through Art-Deco. It is named after Saint Quentin of Amiens, who…
France – Troyes
Troyes is a town in the Grand Est region of northeastern France. It is a city with a great historical and cultural history which has many well-preserved medieval and renaissance buildings. Its medieval old town features narrow, cobbled streets lined…
