Author: Dennis Dawson

It’s now been almost 10 weeks since I left Australia, and Maggie and I are nearing the final stages of

On our final full day in Paris Maggie and I take advantage of the glorious warm weather to walk many kilometres around the city.

After three days of living in the Middle Earth of our Paris Apartment, my head is showing distinct signs of

On Sunday mornings Paris is closed to cars and the streets are given over to thousands of walkers and cyclists. It is a beautiful thing to experience.

After three nights in Dijon in beautiful Burgundy, it was time for us to make the next transition back to

While visiting the Musee de Beaux Arts in Dijon we discover a fascinating but little known character from French History – Ronald the Wrongfoot.

They say that everything comes in threes, and that certainly was the case on day 58 of our adventure when three catastrophes threatened to undo all the successes of the previous 8 weeks.

The next stage of our French journey takes us to the North East to visit the unique region of Alsace – more German than French. The signs are everywhere that Christmas is rapidly getting closer.

Maggie and I have now left the seaside town of Cassis and have made our way across the Alps to the Eastern region of Alsace, hotly contested for hundreds of years.

Driving in France certainly brings a range of challenges that are quite different to those faced in Australia.