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1 July 2025
Bad start Today, we start a two-day road trip from Bordeaux to Le Mans via a short section of the Loire Valley. With the rental car booked for 0830, we set the alarm for 0630 and were out the door at 0730 bound for the airport, where the rates were far cheaper than from a […]
30 June 2025
Sightseeing fail #1 This morning, the hotel’s cheapest breakfast option at EUR2.50 (placarded inside the room door) tempted me. It comprised of a coffee and a pastry. It turned out to be EUR2.30 actually, but in retrospect it wasn’t such a good deal. A pastry across the road at the supermarket was EUR0.45 and I […]
29 June 2025
Going to Arcachon The alarm went off at 0715 but we fell asleep till 0845. We woke surprised at the time but the 1h time different towards the east must have contributed to it. We readied ourselves quickly before taking the bus to the train station for the 1005 train to Arcachon. Buying the tickets […]
28 June 2025
Departing Madeira We woke at 0715 and were out the door at 0820 after some breakfast and making sandwiches for the flight to Bordeaux. The car return went OK and we were dropped off at Funchal airport around 0900 for our 1030 Easyjet flight. It wasn’t a long wait as I killed time looking for […]
27 June 2025
Funchal We were even later today, starting at 1045. Today, we will explore Madeira’s main city of Funchal. I decided we would head to the furthest point of interest on the western end of the centre. That was the Christiano Ronaldo Museum. We paid EUR5 per person to enter and I immediately realised it was […]
26 June 2025
Levada dos Balcoes We had an even later start today at 1030. With good weather, we thought it would be best to do our little outdoor experience today at Levada dos Balcoes. Google Maps took us uphill towards the interior using the narrowest back streets instead of going downhill to join larger roads. To […]
25 June 2025
Southern Coast We had a leisurely start with breakfast of toast, using local fresh bread, supplied by our hosts. Today, the intention was to see one side of the island and maybe more, if time allows. We left at 1000, driving towards the west of the southern coast of the island. We made a wrong […]
21 June 2025
Boat excursion again With time to kill before our 2015 flight tonight to Vienna, we had decided to repeat an excursion to Navagio Beach but this time from Porto Vromi so that we took in slightly different spots from the trip we did two days ago from Agios Nikolaos. We had paid up yesterday for […]
20 June 2025
Vasilikos Peninsula We had a late start today, leaving the hotel around 1000 to explore by car, parts of Zakynthos that we hadn’t seen. Since we explored the north yesterday, I thought we would explore the south today, especially the Vasilikos Peninsula. We started driving down the northern side on which there is a road, […]
19 June 2025
Driving to Agios Nikolaos We left the hotel about 0830, driving towards Agios Nikolaos where cruises are available to Navagio (Shipwreck) Beach and hopefully the Blue Caves. The drive was a bit scary for Kim with the narrow roads and the way other drivers overtake and pull on from the side roads. It is unusual […]