As in all our trips in the last few years I booked our international flights using Qantas points, generally in Business class. Sometimes that means taking the “scenic route” home rather than the most direct. For our trip back home this time my only choice had been three legs, Paris…
We enjoyed the breakfast provided by Chateau des Arpentis on their terrace this morning on our wedding anniversary. In this photo you can see the building our apartment is in. I was sorry to check out, it’s been a lovely break here, however we had to head back closer to…
We had decided to cater for ourselves for breakfast this morning so we used our little oven to heat up croissants and enjoyed them with some lovel,y fruit we’d bought yesterday. The French supermarkets have such a wonderful variety of fresh fruits and some fabulous cheeses and deli items. Then…
When planning this trip I wanted us to stay somewhere a bit special for our last few days, over Neil’s birthday and our 42nd wedding anniversary. Our flight home was booked from Paris so a stay in a chateau in the Loire Valley (only a couple of hours drive from…
We had one more full day in France and Neil was keen to revisit the Australian National Memorial at Villers – Brettoneaux. Since our last visit in 2011 they have build a large museum there! The John Monash Centre, and it receives excellent reviews. We enjoyed a tasty breakfast of…
Our alarms went off at 4 am, but I’d been awake for over an hour! We dressed quickly and hit the road by 4.20. Google said it would take us around 50 minutes to be at the Memorial at Utah Beach and we needed to be there well before dawn…
Our plans for today had been a bit fluid. The main thing we wanted to see was the parachute drop that was planned to happen at the Azeville Battery , but the timing of the drop had been moving around like a parachute on a windy day! In the original…
We were both glad to get to bed last night, we’re definitely feeling the effects of jet lag. The shutters in our apartment here are a little basic and don’t block the light so it felt a little odd going to sleep with the sky still a little light! We…
The Novotel at CDG airport was a good find. We slept well, ate a good breakfast and it was very easy to transfer in the monorail back to terminal 2f to collect our rental car for this part of the trip. The Europcar counter had an efficient registrations login PC…
This trip has crept up on me a bit, I suppose because we usually travel in September , not June. Neil’s been working lots of late nights to catch up on Tax lodgements before we go, he would never choose to travel in June normally but unfortunately the Allied leaders…
We were up at 5.40 this morning! Nothing like a sleep in on holidays 😂 After throwing on several layers of clothes we hit the road back towards Bullecourt and the start of Neil’s battlefield tour. His own blog goes into it in much more detail but I’ve been amazed…
After an excellent buffet breakfast where I was tempted by the champagne on offer but resisted, we had to attend to a serious emergency…Neil has forgotten to pack the charging cable for his GoPro 5! 😂 We had Googled to see if we could find an electronics shop and…
