Its been a while since my last post as we have been staying in a lot of B&Bs and they don’t have the internet. We have been pretty busy – we have visited Doug & Deni from Grand Designs and saw Chez Jallot in the small town of Vidaillat. The house is amazing, we had the Master Bedroom and it stretched the width of the house so we have views of the back garden & the front. Doug has been busy with additions and was kind enough to give Simon a tour.
We also had a quick stop over at a country house in Noaillic near Bordeaux. We are finding the B&Bs hard to find as we are not familiar with the way the French write their address and often they use the region or department instead of the suburb.
We popped into Spain and spent a night in Mundaka Bay. I found it hard to drive in Spain, I think I am used to the way the French drive and have found it difficult to learn another set of road rules and signs, although I must admit I have no idea what most of the French signs say. Both Simon and I were expecting Spain to be flat & dry – it was very hilly & very green. Mundaka itself is actually a very small village. Our hotel was as close as we could get to the beach and was only separated by a small park. Its amazing to find that everyone still has a nap in the afternoon as all the stores were closed and then suddenly everything was reopened and there were lots of people out & about. We were starving so the hotel kindly prepared us an early dinner and unfortunately they locals weren’t impressed with our early dinner time and not the normal 8.30pm! We will definitely add Mundaka to our ‘places to come back to’ list.
We are currently in Millau. We are staying in an old hotel which has been renovated, the part we are in was once a castle and our room is in the tower. We drove over (& under) the suspension bridge (801 metres about sea level at the highest point). The hotel is beautiful and we just had a lovely dinner in the restaurant overlooking the city lights. We are running very low on clothes, I managed to find a Laundromat in Bourges (tomorrow’s destination) but it means driving into the city center. The city’s are very busy and very hard to navigate. The roads don’t have any marked lines and but up hard against the buildings. To make things a little more interesting I still haven’t worked out how has to give way to whom!
From Bourges we are driving to the airport to drop off the car and catch our flight to Venice. We spend two nights in Venice and then we fly to Barcelona. I’m a little worried about how much my luggage weighs!
I should also mention that we spent a lovely night at a small B&B just off the highway in between Mundaka and Millau. The B&B was run by a lovely lady named Brigitte.
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