Our stay at the Chateau Well we have been here for 5 days now and thought we would give you an overview of how it all works. If you watch Paul’s movie first it will all make sense. Breakfast is served each morning according to the time our bus is departing. Chantelle is the Chateau […]
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Beaumont and Honfleur
Beaumont-en-Auge and Honfleur At 9.30 our coach headed to the ancient village of Beaumont –en-Auge, dating back to the 1740’s. It was a quaint village at the top of a hill. Well worth a look around as you will see from the photos. Paul had coffee in the quaintest of cafes. Not one piece […]
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D Day Landings I have forgotten to record in our last few posts that the European heatwave is not affecting us here in Normandy. Our first evening was warm until sunset and since then the weather has been great. What a fascinating day we had exploring the landing sites of D Day (6 June 1944). […]
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Deauville On Saturday 28 July we headed to Deauville by bus. It took about 80 minutes to get there. We had never heard of it before and we were delighted to find it a beautiful town. It was full of beautiful buildings, has 3 casinos and apparently has a huge horse racing venue. On […]
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Paris to Normandy At 10.15 am we all assembled with our luggage to head to a street wide enough for our coach to collect us. Greg and Gaye have booked a luxury coach and driver for our week in Normandy. The following photos are ones I snapped out the bus window as we headed south […]
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Paris Day 3 Again today Paul and I did our own thing in Paris. Our hotel is in a perfect location as it is a 10 minute walk to the Champs Elysees so we went exploring. It was quite hot so we saw a bar that indicated it had air conditioning. We were shown to […]
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Paris Day 2 We ventured downstairs for breakfast just after 8 am and found most of our group in the dining room. Breakfast is included in our tour each day and this hotel has a great variety to offer. I found it amusing that the saucer for the coffee cup is almost as large as […]
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We arrived at Changi Airport about 9.30 pm and I was surprised to how mechanised everything was as last time we visited we were told how important it was for there to be a job for everyone in Singapore. We checked in to get our boarding pass and luggage tags at a kiosk, then self […]
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Finally we are off on our next adventure. This time we are travelling for one month with Finesse Bridge Club, then we have 3 weeks on our own. Friday was like any other day. Played bridge, went to lunch, then collected a car from Newcastle airport. Saturday we drove to Sydney and dropped the car […]
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