I’m now one day behind as we were very late back last night so I didn’t have the time nor inclination to blog then. So what have we been up to? In the morning we enjoyed an unhurried breakfast for a change and Bala collected us from the hotel; as this is his home town…
After travelling from the UK overnight and then on by car from Chennai to Mallapuram and then going to see the Shore Temple and the wonderful carvings by the time we got to bed last night we were both absolutely worn out. I think we both fell asleep as soon as our heads hit the…
When we visited India in 2017 we really thought that it would be our last trip, then I started thinking about a trip to the Darjeeling area and then I saw a programme on television about the culture and temples of Southern India and suddenly we were going again. This probably WILL be the last…
Curiously we left Poitiers in the rain, this is becoming a habit. It eventually cleared and we actually had sunshine for the last part of our journey. Knowing that our hotel in Rouen didn’t have any parking I phoned ahead for the location of the nearest public parking, Googled it for coordinates and let SatNav…
Unbelievably it’s another day without rain as we set off to head home; our first stop on the return journey is to be Poitiers, a city we’ve passed by before but a convenient place for us to break our homeward journey. To be honest it was a simple reversal of our outward journey except that…
After the watery awfulness of yesterday we went to bed hoping for better things to come. Waking a couple of times during the night I noticed that………..it had stopped raining. When we got up this morning it was still not raining. Then, in the middle of breakfast, it chucked it down all over again! This…
I’m rather afraid that there’s not much to say about today as it’s been a complete washout. Not just raining but absolutely chucking it down from dawn to dusk, this was the view from our window this morning. We delayed breakfast as long as we could but sooner or later you have to do something;…
Well Bayonne has a much more relaxed feel to it, nobody seems to be in very much of a rush at all and that suits me when I’m on holiday. A few overnight showers had cleared but the day started very overcast and with the River Nive in slack water I was able to get…
We were sorry to leave Bordeaux which we have liked immensely but not sorry to leave our hotel which was, at best, adequate. Leaving on a Sunday morning is certainly preferable to leaving on a Monday morning and yet again Madam Garmin makes it so easy. Look forward to visiting Bordeaux again sometime. With heavy…
Our last full day in Bordeaux and an unsettled weather forecast so we decided to head fir some culture. Tram into the city centre and a walk up to the Musée des Beaux-Arts, once again taking us past some attractive streets. The museum itself has two wings which stretch along the two sides of the…
The Sixwheeler Chronicles 