Tag: south of france

• The Canal du Midi

  For the final leg of our trip to France, we putter gently down the murky brown waters of the Canal du Midi.  Built to create a continuous water way between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, it was completed in 1681 and has flowed ever since.  We start our little sojourn at the port of Le…

  Sharlene Zeederberg

  July 10, 2011

  Europe, Travel

  canal boating, canal du midi, raod trips in france, south of france, things to do in france, travel in france

• The Dordogne, France – Road Trip

  We’ve exchanged the sophistication of Paris for rustic, rural France.  We arrived into Bordeaux via the high speed train network and headed straight out again in our newly acquired campervan.  On the way to St Emilion, in the heart of acres of green, luscious vineyards, we stopped at, what seemed to me to be, the…

  Sharlene Zeederberg

  June 25, 2011

  Europe, Road Trips, Travel

  Brantome, Castelnaud, Dordogne, road trips, road trips in france, Sarlat, south of france, St Emilion, travel notes