We spent a week in Mauroux, a tiny hamlet on the Lot river, in early May and discovered a dozen incredibly beautiful bastides, chateaus and fortified towns in the area. A quick word on<div class="blog-buttons"><a href="https://tripticks.org/a-dozen-dazzling-french-towns-in-the-lot-and-dordogne/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>
We fulfilled a bucket list dream that started back in 1994 when we were freshly engaged and exploring Europe in an old Mitsubishi L300 carpenters van. We were en route to take the Hurtigruten<div class="blog-buttons"><a href="https://tripticks.org/northern-lights-on-the-hurtigruten-coastal-cruise-kirkenes-to-bergen/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>
We spent seven days in late April house/dog sitting in a little town called Chapelle des Pots just ten minutes from the city of Saintes and loved how richly packed the Charente-Maritime region in Nouvelle-Aquitaine<div class="blog-buttons"><a href="https://tripticks.org/seven-startling-days-in-saintes-and-surrounds-in-spring/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>