Here is a screenshot of my “Memory Map” plot of my route. Each flag represents where we spent the night. The big gap in the middle is where Topsy hurt her foot and we travelled by train.

Secret welcome home party 5PM Sunday 28 Oct. for Peter, Happy & Topsy. At Reubens Cottage, Sheep Street, Stow-on-the-Wold. (Almost opposite “Goody Twoshoes kids shoe shop). Courtesy of Cat & JP. All friends and people who would like to meet all 3 returning randoneurs, welcome. Bring a bottle and a plate of food. Anyone bringing […]

En français, then in English J'avais perdu mon raison d'être aprés la mort de ma femme, Carolyn. Ce balade m'a donné un autre, a gagner Liausson avec mon Pudding de Nœl, et aprés ça, le Mediteranée. Pour 3 mois, ma vie était 20kg dans mon sac, et tout j'avais besoin de ètait de nouriture et [...]

I came to France for an adventure, and I have left with another French adventure. Her name is Agnès, charmingly pronounced “Anne-yes”. And all because Topsy had a sore foot. When I arrived on a Friday in Les Eyzies sur Tayac, I wanted to see the prehistoric rock paintings at Le Font de Gaume. Only […]

Three months ago, on July 17, Minty Tours hit the road in Ftance. Thtee months later, we are sitting in a restaurant in Bagnoles sur l’Orne, with a ferry ticket to Porysmouth from Caen at 23.00 tomorrow. Today it took 2 hours to drove what had taken me 2 weeks to walk. I noticed roads […]

Panic! The train had arrived and I couldn’t find my tickets! I bundled onto the train and started to empty my rucksack, when to the great relief of myself and the conductor, they fell to the floor! The journey across France went smoothely, with changes at Perigeau to get to Bordeaux, then the nonstop TGV […]

The rain set in over-night and the sound of water eunning off the roof became like a constant tap running. So plans to go canoeing on the river were abandoned and breakfast lapsed into lunch. In an attempt to exercise the dogs, wandeeed down to the rsilway station and reserved my train tickets for travelling […]

There is a walk high above the twisting Vézère river, following the cliffs where trogdylites lived below. Each tower is a cliff face with views over the river and the valley below. Not a good place for labradors to play tag! As the sky darkened early in the afteroon, and the spluttering notes of the […]

Had caught the train from Agen to Les Eyzies sur Tayac on Thutsday, arriving in the evening, and have been staying with friends. They seem to have an innordinate amount of wood and spent the afternoon stacking 4 cubic metres of it. Dinner in a vegetarian restaurant in town to celebrate an end to a […]

Today was an unwind day. Everything in my back-pack seemed either damp or wet and not smelli g too sweet! So EVERYTHING was put out un 5he sun to dry or into the washing machine to wash. Then I made the mistake of trying to use the Ryanair website which refused 4 credit cards; timef […]