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First my apologies if you have been receiving emails announcing blogs from me that don’t exist, I have been trying to add a photo gallery to the blog and have been having problems. I have been given instructions on how to sort it out so all should be okey dokey from now on. We wentContinue reading “in search of boeuf.”

On our way to Scotland to visit our children (her son my daughter) Karen and I traveled along Hadrians wall in Northumbria. Karen had passed close by inreign the past but had never managed to get to see it. I had been there several times but not for a while and had even walked aContinue reading “In search of Hadrian”

We had a walk and a picnic lunch this week at a village called St Bertand de Commings in the Pryenees on the way to Spain to buy olive oil, wine and tobacco (the last item not for us )which are all cheaper there in varying degrees. . We had been there before but wanted toContinue reading “Looking for Herod”

We decided to get out more as part of our latest attempt to reverse the weight I at least have gained over the last 12 months. I was convinced I had lost weight since the two dogs  arrived and I was walking at least 40 minutes a day so I was a bit shocked whenContinue reading “Dog walking in the Pyrenees and other ramblings”

It seems like weeks since the sun shone down on us, it has been a wet July when normally South west France is bathed in sunshine, ok we normally have the occasional thunderstorm this time of year which cools us down and washes the dust from the streets but days and days of rain isContinue reading “Hello again!”

I have not been blogging for a while it has been a hectic time, a trip to England where our feet didn’t seem to hit the ground, driving a thousand miles without really going anywhere,  however we achieved what we went for with a slightly different outcome than we expected. We were glad to beContinue reading “A busy old time all in all”