Blog in France

Journey to the Centre of France Chris and I have been doing a lot of cycling recently. Getting Covid back in March, losing Tobi and gaining Polly disrupted things for a couple of months, but we’re now back in the saddle as often as we can manage it. We’re regularly...

Goodbye to Tobi, hello to Polly We lost our lovely dog Tobi a few weeks ago due to complications after surgery. Suddenly Team Dagg was a crucial member down. It was an awful and heart-breaking shock. There’d be no more geocaching and campervan adventures together, no more wingdog chasing after...

Our first 2023 outing in Precious the campervan took us to Haute-Loire, once we’d dropped Rors off for his afternoon train back to university. It didn’t get off to the greatest start. We’d planned to park overnight in the area set aside for campervans at the Aire des Vulcans services....

Rewilding Les Fragnes You’ve probably come across the term ‘rewilding’ as it’s a bit of a buzz word these days. And rightly so, especially in the face of climate change. This disastrous year of droughts, fires and floods seems to be hammering the message home into the even the hardest...

Tenways to help the planet Chris and I are now the proud owners of a pair of electric bikes. To use the correct terminology they’re actually electrically-assisted bikes, but that’s a bit of a mouthful! The difference between electric bikes and electrically-assisted ones is that the motor in the latter...