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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…

This trip has been close to 4 years in the making. Like many people, Covid19 interrupted a few plans I had made in 2019, this trip being one of them. In that time, the trip has changed from finishing off the last of the Silk Road (Azerbaijan, Georgia & Armenia), as it’s all become a…