Monday morning started fine although the forecast was for cloud and rain to come later in the afternoon. We caught the first cable car to the top of Bellevarde and set out to walk the path called “La Spatule”. This was a path that wrapped around the peak and then descended 800 metres above La…
Early Saturday morning we caught the train from Montbard station as we were heading for Val D’Isère in the French Alps. We’d skied there around 10 years ago and wanted to visit for walking and to experience the resort in summer. The journey was around 7 hours, via Lyon and Chambery to Bourg St Maurice and…
We spent the next week with my sister, brother-in-law and father at a gîte in Layer Sur Roche, a tiny village about 100km north-west of Dijon. The five bedroom converted farmhouse seemed so spacious following our previous six weeks in the camper van – although we still missed our former “home”. According to the local…