October 9th Our first day in Cabrerets dawns cool and foggy….no major sightseeing today as Annie and Queenie (Sue has taken on a new name) will rest and exercise the washer, while the boys will forage for supplies in Cahors about 30 minutes away. The trip to Cahors is surprisingly pleasant as the road follows…Continue Reading “Cabrerets Day #1 & 2……..Rest & Reorganization and a day Trip to Rocamadour”
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October 8th Everyone is up bright and early, light breakfast and much running around to sort everything out……we are on Le Boat’s doorstep at 9AM on the nose, to return keys, settle up etc. and by 9:30 AM, we say goodbye to Caprice and are on our way to Cabrerets , a village close to…Continue Reading “Homps to Cabrerets”
October 5th Everyone is up bright and early with Bob so keen to go he wants to start before it is even full light. In any event, cups of coffee in hand and our cold weather gear on, about 7 C, we are off. Today we want to run all the way back to Homps…..so…Continue Reading “Canal du Midi > Days #5, 6 & 7…back to Homps, Carcassane and La Redorte”
October 3rd The morning was dull, with clouds brooding….breakfast on board and we are off. Today we are facing only one single lock and this was encountered about a kilometer outside of Le Somail, last night’s overnight stop. From here we will be having no more locks untill Beziers and we are motoring at 8…Continue Reading “Canal du Midi > Days #3 & 4……to Capestang and an o/n in the “wild””
October 2nd We woke up to a rather dull day, it having rained quite heavily overnite….but we need to move on; fire up the stove: coffee, croissants, fruit and we are off. Rather gloomy with rain threatening but not bad and slowly the clouds lift and the sun comes out just as we arrive at…Continue Reading “Canal du Midi > Day #2……..to Le Somail”
October 1st A crisp beautiful autumn day is served up along with a copious breakfast, perfect fare for the challenges ahead: ……and we are off to get provisions for the trip. Got everything we need and it is time to check-in with Le Boat….no struggles with French, these are Brits running the operation. We get…Continue Reading “Canal du Midi > Day #1……….downstream or upstream hmmm!”
September 30th Got up to another beauty of a day (it had rained during the nite….perfect timing for the rain to well, rain) had a full breakfast with our very chatty owner….she did acknowledge she loved to gab with guests….all this in French. Finally manged to extricate ourselves from her clutches, hit the local car…Continue Reading “Ardiege to Rieux – Minervois………Haggerty Pick-up en route”
September 29th Today we are leaving San Sebastien (Donostia) and heading back to France our wonderful stay in Espana over….we really would like to come back…adios! Another beauty of a day, clear skies and temperatures going into the 20’s, as we motor down the autopiste to Vic d’Aurbait, where my colleague from BNP Paribas lives. This…Continue Reading “San Sebastien to Ardiege …….via Vic d’Aurbait”
September 27th Woke up to a crisp sunny morning, packed and left sans breakfast…..as we wanted to get to Bilbao asap…. A nice and fast drive as we were on the autopiste, so arrived close to the Guggenheim by 10AM and had coffee and some morning tapas. A pleasant downtown area with of course the…Continue Reading “Santalina del Mar to San Sebastien (Donostia) ….and day trip to Biaritz, France”
September 26th Had a great nights sleep, breakfast was comprehensive, hard-boiled eggs, ham, cheese, yoghurt and 4 breakfast cakes etc…..the lady owner being quite sure to make sure we knew that the cakes were homemade…..pretty good for 45 Euro per nite. Car is parked in front of the Casa …..these rural overnight places are really…Continue Reading “Coroa to Santilana del Mar……more Picos de Europa”