We drove through Germany from the Czech Republic on our way to Strasbourg, France in early August. The countryside was still green and the temperatures mild and we loved being back on the Euro and able to speak/understand at least a little of the German language after our challenges in the eastern bloc countries. We stopped for two nights in the south-eastern town of Regensburg and discovered the delights of […]
We spent a week traveling from the south of France and the Cote d’Azur in the l’Aquittane region up to mid-west of France to the Correze region in June for a friend’s wedding and enjoyed some very picturesque driving routes and towns along the way. We took the road from Fejus north, following the Rhone river until just below the town of Orange where we turned west, stopping in at […]
We spent 5 days mid-June in Sainte-Maxime, a delightful, slightly more low-key resort town than St Tropez and its cousin, on the Cote d’Azur. We travelled 90 minutes from the busy port town (with the most chaotic traffic we have ever seen) of Toulon to Sainte-Maxime in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur department in the l’Aquittane region. We stayed in the nifty little Hotel Le Revest (super friendly owners and a little […]