Blog Category: Travel

Mini European Tour Day 6 – La Mure to Lake Annecy

The last of the real Col roads today 🙁 The main one being another popular route on the Tour De France, the Col du Granier which crosses the Chartreuse mountains and is located between Mont Granier and Mont Joigny. The road is lined with the… read on…

Mini European Tour Day 5 – Briancon to La Mure

Feeling hot hot hot!! Roof down, shoulders out, Australian Gold on (my tan accelerator of choice!). The first Col of the day was the Col D’Izoard which took us to Gap. Another Tour De France route that even had sculptures of Fausto Coppi and Louis… read on…

Mini European Tour Day 4 – Seez to Briancon

So yesterday we did 3 countries in one day and today we’ve done 3 seasons in one day! The weather has varied from 15 degrees and cloudy in Seez, 1 degree and snowing at the top of the Col del’iseran and 23 degrees and sunny… read on…

Mini European Tour Day 3 – Lake Geneva to Seez

Today really was a mini European tour as we crossed the border not only into Switzerland but out the other side into Italy and then back into France! 3 countries in 1 day! 😳 The weather this morning was beautiful, it was definitely a shorts… read on…

Mini European Tour Day 2 – Dijon to Lake Geneva

After exploring the town of Dijon a little more and of course petting the owl, we set off on the next stretch of road that would take us to Lake Geneva. Not quite on the col roads yet but we saw some beautiful scenery and… read on…

Mini European Tour Day 1 Dover to Dijon

And we’re off! We’ve been planning this trip for a while now which has entailed changing routes numerous times to coincide with the best weather! We headed to Dover Friday night and stayed in a little B and B to save anyone getting up too… read on…

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Taking ‘Glamping’ up a gear at Glastonbury 2015

So the Glastonbury re-sale of tickets went on sale at 9am this morning! If you’re one of the lucky few to nab a ticket to the UK’s most anticipated festival then you’ll be jumping with joy! But you’ll soon be hopping mad when you arrive… read on…

A guide to Vegas!

So a year ago we were in Amsterdam for my best friend Emily’s  Birthday and we joked about going to Vegas this year – by joked I mean laughed about it but were actually very seriously considering it – so here we are a year… read on…

Australia Day 9 and 10

There literally hasn’t been any time to write my final post so I’m doing it now as we’ve just arrived back in the UK. After our amazing Hunter Valley tour we had a lazy lie in before packing up and heading off to find some… read on…

Australia Day 8 – Hunter Valley Wine Country

It’s wine day!! Our car arrived at 10am, a beautifully restored 1958 Cadillac from Arizona. We hired it from Hunter Valley Cadillacs, owned by our driver Debbie and her husband. Such a great experience for a group of 4 friends and family to do –… read on…