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>
We had a cheeky overnighter in Perigueux in late April and found this ancient city had so much to offer we could have stayed a week. We lucked a little third floor apartment right<div class="blog-buttons"><a href="https://tripticks.org/two-days-in-pretty-perigueux/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>
We spent 10 days in Bordeaux in April and were blown away but how much this big-little city packs in. We wandered endlessly and aimlessly discovering new old-neighbourhoods, beautiful 18th century buildings, shady green<div class="blog-buttons"><a href="https://tripticks.org/ten-tantalising-days-discovering-the-best-of-bordeaux-in-spring/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>