Kevin and Moya's 6-month ADVENTURE !!!

Yesterday, 28 April 2010, we set off for Limoges, choosing to travel one of the scenic routes. We stopped along the way several times and one in particular will remain in memory, when we stopped at the village of Piegut-Pluviers. This was the most memorable market we have experienced in our time here, in more […]

Thursday 22nd dawned a little overcast, but your intrepid quartet of Maurice, Sue, Moya and Kevin undeterred set off on an adventure to Cognac. It was an even greater adventure as Moya volunteered to drive, her first long journey driving in France. Despite that we arrived safe and sound. Moya parked the car in the […]

Today, a lovely sunny day, we left our Farmhouse to travel 30 minutes south to Brantome….known as “the Venice of the Perigord”. It is just beautiful – an island surrounded by the River Dronne. Lots of little winding streets, and we chose to go today being market day, so there was much activity. We wandered […]

Dimanche (Sunday) saw us tripping to Rochefoucauld and Montron. The original intention was to view some prehistoric caves but when we arrived at them we found they opened only at 2.30 and 4.00 so off we went to the above. Rochefoucauld has a chateau of the same name some centuries old and also an old […]

Well, it is early morning here in Villebois Lavalette (or should I say Garde, as we are actually 4km from the village of Villebois Lavalette, in a hamlet called Garde le Pontaroux, complete with its own Eglise). We are now 10 hours behind NZ Time, after the change to daylight saving. The sun is shining […]

We picked up our Peugeot Eurolease in Paris on Wednesday and intended to travel to Villebois-Lavelette. There was a slight problem in that we got lost in Paris on the way out. Instead of turning left we went staright ahead at an intersection. We eventually found our way on the right road with the assistance […]

We had 5 very lovely days in Paris. The weather was cold, showery, most of the time, but we enjoyed the ambience and culture anyway. Our stay in the Latin Quarter was wonderful, so central to everything. We wandered the quaint little streets, stopped for an expresso here and there, bought up supplies for our […]