Tag: castle
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Noirmoutier & Ile de Re
GK Tours. Day 5 Friday 8th November La Barre-de-Monts to Ile de Re. Wow, another great night’s sleep in the cave, think this is how it’s going to be so won’t mention it again . The sun was out this morning, in fact it’s been out all day! After breakfast we took another walk to…
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St Malo & Dinan
GK Tours Day 2. Tuesday 5th November 2024 St Malo & Dinan In the past we have had some questionable ferry trips, memories of which sadly rear their ugly head when things don’t seem to be running smoothly. As we hadn’t departed from Portsmouth in a very long time we weren’t sure of how it…
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Chateau de Chambord
Day 15, 20th Oct 2025 Chateau de Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France Deciding which amazing Chateau to visit next is hard as there are so many! We chose the Chateau de Chambord because it is the most visited Chateau in France. Work was started on it in 1519 and became a World Heritage site in 1981. And…
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Saumur
Day 13, 18th oct 2025 Saumur, Maine et Loire Gareth had spotted Saumur on a google maps search. It’s a big town and has an amazing castle we couldn’t miss. The drive was about an hour, some of which was on dual carriageways but mostly through vineyard country, glorious! You spot the castle on your…
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Oudon
Day 11, 16th Oct 2025 Oudon, Loire Atlantique Today was dedicated to the laundry. In Croisic, just up the road was a supermarket with a laundry attached. Brilliant, we filled up with fuel, Gareth got the laptop out and did some of that work stuff, while I shopped for supplies and moved laundry from washer…
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Rochefort En Terre and Piriac Sur Mer
Day 9, 14 Oct 2025 Rochefort En Terre, Brittany & Piriac Sur Mer, Loire Atlantique. Today was our last stop in Brittany, another ‘pretty village’ called Rochefort En Terre. What a gorgeous little place it is. It only has a couple of roads running through it but they are festooned with beautiful old architecture, some…
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Pont L’Abbe and Josselin
Day 7 & 8, 12 & 13 Oct 2025 Pont L’Abbe & Josselin, Brittany We’ve had a couple of lovely lazy days. Sunday Yesterday, we were intending to visit Quimper until we realised we’d visited earlier this year on our way back from our Christmas break in Spain! Doh! So we passed through and carried…
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Landsberg and Olching
GK Tours 2025. Sunday 29th June to Tuesday 1st July Kochel to Landsberg am lech and Olching (Munich), Germany Sunday. So this last week has mostly been spent hiding from the sun. We moved on from the lake at Kochel to Landsberg am lech. We spent the afternoon in the shade until it was cool…
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Into Umbria: Bolsena, Todi & Marmore
GK Tours 2025. Wednesday 18th June. Bolsena, Todi and Marmore, Italy I was awake early this morning, so I took Meg for a stroll around the Lake while it was still cool enough. It’s difficult when you are parked in a carpark, you can’t get your chairs out and there were no benches close by…
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Budoni, Bosa and more
Wednesday 4th to Saturday 7th June, Budoni to Mari Ermi via Orgosolo and Bosa, Sardinia The site Gareth had stayed on while I was away was lovely, and just off a lovely beach so we stayed another day and left on Thursday. It was our intention to work our way down to the capital of…