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To mix things up, it was time to hit the air and head over the water for a kayaking and hiking adventure in Norway. Our flights are not as early this time, so it was an easy trip to Gatwick to catch an onwards flight to Stavanger, Norway. Our guide and tour picked up from…

It’s always a bittersweet day to be leaving somewhere that you’ve had such a fantastic, chilled time. Also both Kylie and I had finally got the bugs out of the hire car (some auto correct steering function that bugged the both of us! We figured out how to turn it off in the last 36…

The markets ran in Bonnieaux this morning and we were surprised as to how big they were for such a small town. Our stroll down to the boulangerie for breakfast took a whole lot longer and the line up to order was out the door. Clearly the boulangerie is geared up for days like these,…

There’s a church just above our little hotel in Bonnieux and every 15 minutes it has something to say, 1 strike for 15, 30 and 45 mins past and obviously it chimes for the hour. It has a certain tone to it that will always remind me of Provence. Whoever has programmed the clock is…

Our day began with the goal of heading out to the Gorge Verdon. A UNESCO site, it will be the furtherest we venture from our heart of Provence Bonnieaux. Two minutes down the road, okay, that is exaggerating, maybe 10 minutes, we got distracted by a winery. Château de Mille was founded in the 13th…

In the theme of having early starts, Kylie and I clearly decided that we needed to go for the most extreme early start (though it could have been worse!). A 9am flight out of Gatwick saw us getting up at 3:30am to catch a flight to Marseille, France. That was early enough I think! We…

The day began bright and early catching the metro in to central London to hit some of the usual highlights. The Tower of London was first off the rank, and we shuffled in with all the other early birds. Kylie was so amazed by the lack of crowds that we hit the Crown Jewels first……

I love a good travel bargain, so when it was suggested to me that flying to London via Singapore and Munich would save me $700, I was all over that! The consequences of which would dawn on me much later! 35 hours of transit is an interesting physical challenge and the likely hood of your…