Thanks for stopping by. This site started off as a sort of diary of life after our move to France. When we first arrived I enjoyed around 18 months of time just to be with my then young children. Since then the pace of life has picked up: my children are starting to form their own lives around school and friends, I have a business to run, and a new one just launching – plus we still have a house to build. This means the blog is quite far down the list of things to do, so now I occasionally post about general “Life in France” stuff but more often I share routes and write-ups from walks, generally suitable for families, and any cycle routes I find – also with a family-friendly slant. If you want to scroll through the whole thing, hop over to the Blog page. Or you can dive straight into a category that interests you using the links below.
Latest Posts
- A Long weekend at a Naturist Village in France
First of all let me say I am not a naturist and have zero interest in wandering around in the nude. Further to that, if anyone had ever told me I’d spend a weekend at… - What is a voie Verte?
The voie vertes are a network of “green” routes suitable for walkers, cyclists, and horse riders, importantly traffic-free. The criss-cross across France usually following converted old railway lines, sometimes combined with sections of dedicated cycle-paths…
Life in France
Riding the Voie Verte from Lavelanet-Mirepoix (Part 2)
With the last week of the holidays looming, I really wanted to get out and…
First Family Camp in the Pyrénées-Orientales
It’s the summer holidays and we live somewhere breathtakingly beautiful. In the UK we were…
Riding the Voie Verte from Lavelanet to Mirepoix (Part 1)
Update 2021! There have been considerable improvements to the surface of this route since I…
Summer Holiday Survival Guide 2018
So far so good. Since I last updated the blog the French long summer holiday,…
What We Did in June
Wow, June already. It’s been almost a month since I last managed to write something….
A Trip to the Tax Office
Well, that went pretty smoothly, I thought. After a mix up over the rendezvous, which…
Occitanie Guide for Families
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Everything Else
Our first three months in France
As of today we’ve been here three whole months. Wow, the time has flown. I…
The Kindness of Strangers
One of the things I’m enjoying most about being here is making new friends and…
Reality check
The last few days have been hard. For most of the last few weeks we’ve…
Don’t panic. It’s all just a phase.
Today’s daily prompt is “phase”, which is appropriate for this blog given that it is…