Wanting to get out of London for a day, we booked train tickets from London Liverpool Street to Cambridge for our last full day in the UK. Sunday morning was an easy time to get across London from our hotel on Piccadilly Lane in Mayfair and we were in our comfortable first class seats in […]

In what has to be the greatest stretch of weather for western France in memory, we enjoyed four gorgeous days on the Ilê d’Yeu, a small island off the coast of Vendée, accessible from the port of Fromentine at the causeway for Ilê de Noirmoutier. Our trip started with an hour drive south along the […]