Breakfast was a lot quieter this morning, instead of hordes of families there were many tables of single people wearing lanyards, clearly here for a work event. We didn’t linger because we had an appointment – we were due to meet Erin at Slough station at 9am! As it turned…
June 8th Today was one of those “transit” days where the focus of the day was getting from one country to another without really any sightseeing. We slept well in Amiens and checked out around 9am, for the hour and a half drive back to Charles de Gaulle airport in…
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…
Monday 25 September We had seen the road system that allows for long queues down to the ferry so we set our alarm for a reasonably early start . When we drove away from the hotel ( which I had booked because it was close to the ferry) we realised…
Saturday 23 September Well the weather luck has turned its back on us now! We woke to grey skies that gave was to drizzle and as we headed out of Jasper the rain started to come down with enthusiasm ! We had planned to stop at Mt Robson Provincial park…
Friday 22 September We needed to drive 17 km southwest of Jasper for our first sight for the day . I’d read that Mt Edith Cavell and the Angel Glacier were a prime place to visit in Jasper National Park and that you need to get there early as the…
We were sad to checkout and leave beautiful Lake Louise but also keen to drive the Icefields Parkway . It’s known as one of the most scenic drives in the world so we’d really been looking forward to it. I’d read a number of guides and had picked out several…
