Today was the last day of our trip. Tomorrow we get a Eurotunnel train from Calais to Folkestone and after a day visiting Sarah’s sister in Southern England we will be home on Saturday. Sarah’s job for the morning was…
A Very Long Day
Yesterday was probably the most tedious day of the trip. We decided that instead of finding yet another Beau Village to overnight in we would travel all the way to the English Channel coast to give the dogs a last…
Goodbye Shorts
Autumn is officially upon Team Basil. Today’s 17 degrees with strong winds finally persuaded me to put on long trousers. My Mum used to make me wear shorts throughout the winter, so at last I’ve found some aspect of being…
La Boulangerie
The attitude to bread in France seems to be different from everywhere else in Europe. Britain stopped making bread using traditional methods decades ago and although there is a slow increase of interest in traditional bread, such bakeries are few…