We awoke to a very sunny morning, Richard again had shorts on & I left the house without my cardigan!!
We headed back to Jardin Darcy to complete one of the loop walks, I did call in for a coffee on the way.
We headed down Boulevard de Sevigne past a building with bees on its facade & under the railway bridge & turned into the Jardin Des Sciences De L’Arquebuse. The gardens were lovely, we walked through the park & along a couple of residential streets before entering the Chartreuse De Champmol which is now a specialist hospital centre, it was previously a Carthusian Monastry. We were heading for Puits de Moïse, the well of Moses which would have been located in the main cloisters.
We then tried to exit the hospital grounds to head along the river but in the end had to go back the way we’d entered as there was a fence along the river side. We did locate the start of the river walk which we’ll now do tomorrow, this is off our tourist map!!
We wandered back along a different route & stopped into the Couvent Des Bernadine’s which was just closing. We called into the supermarket on the way past & purchased a baguette for lunch (cold lamb).
We listened to the end of the Richmond football game, they won & then had lunch.
I was working on the Moroccon diary when we heard a lot of chanting & noticed protesters outside the prison at the end of our road, they then headed past us, we think it was a yellow vest march, no police presence at all. The 24th Saturday in a row.
I’ve done the ironing from yesterday’s washing. Richard is making some stock as he could only find bouillon cubes & not liquid stock, it smells delicious.
Julie Elvidge
87 chapters
16 Apr 2020
April 20, 2019
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Saturday
We awoke to a very sunny morning, Richard again had shorts on & I left the house without my cardigan!!
We headed back to Jardin Darcy to complete one of the loop walks, I did call in for a coffee on the way.
We headed down Boulevard de Sevigne past a building with bees on its facade & under the railway bridge & turned into the Jardin Des Sciences De L’Arquebuse. The gardens were lovely, we walked through the park & along a couple of residential streets before entering the Chartreuse De Champmol which is now a specialist hospital centre, it was previously a Carthusian Monastry. We were heading for Puits de Moïse, the well of Moses which would have been located in the main cloisters.
We then tried to exit the hospital grounds to head along the river but in the end had to go back the way we’d entered as there was a fence along the river side. We did locate the start of the river walk which we’ll now do tomorrow, this is off our tourist map!!
We wandered back along a different route & stopped into the Couvent Des Bernadine’s which was just closing. We called into the supermarket on the way past & purchased a baguette for lunch (cold lamb).
We listened to the end of the Richmond football game, they won & then had lunch.
I was working on the Moroccon diary when we heard a lot of chanting & noticed protesters outside the prison at the end of our road, they then headed past us, we think it was a yellow vest march, no police presence at all. The 24th Saturday in a row.
I’ve done the ironing from yesterday’s washing. Richard is making some stock as he could only find bouillon cubes & not liquid stock, it smells delicious.
1.
Africa to Europe
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Lisbon
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Lisbon
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Lisbon
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Lisbon
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Lisbon
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Obrigado Lisbon, Ola Seville
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Seville
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Seville
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Seville
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Seville to Granada
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Granada
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Granada
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Granada to Murcia
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Murcia
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Murcia
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Murcia
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Murcia (day trip to Cartagena)
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Murcia
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Murcia
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Murcia to Barcelona
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Barcelona
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Barcelona
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Barcelona
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Barcelona
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Gràcia Barcelona, bonjour Toulouse
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Toulouse
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Toulouse
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Toulouse
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Toulouse to Nice
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Nice
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Nice (day trip to Monaco)
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Nice
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Nice to Lyon
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Lyon
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Lyon
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Lyon
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Lyon
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Lyon to Dijon
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Dijon
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Dijon
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Dijon
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Dijon
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Dijon
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Dijon to Strasbourg
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Strasbourg
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Strasbourg
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Strasbourg (day trip Alsace)
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Strasbourg
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Strasbourg (lunch in Germany)
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Strasbourg to Caen
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Caen
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Caen
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Caen (day trip to Bayeux)
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Caen to Lille
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Lille
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Lille
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Lille
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Merci Lille, Hallo Oostende
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Oostende
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Oostende (day trip to Brugge)
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Oostende
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Dank u Oostende, hallo Amsterdam
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Amsterdam
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Amsterdam
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Bedankt Amsterdam, hello North Sea
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Howay Newcastle & Hexham
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Hexham
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Hexham
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Hexham
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Hexham
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Hexham
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Hexham to Northwich
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Northwich, Saltfleetby, Sheffield, Northwich, Windsor, Clifton, Northwich.
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Northwich to Dublin
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Dublin
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Dublin to Fermoy
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Fermoy & Cobh
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Fermoy to Farmers Bridge
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Farmers Bridge
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Farmers Bridge (day trip to Dingle Peninsula)
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Farmers Bridge to Kinvara
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Kinvara (day trip to the Cliffs of Moher)
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Kinvara to Dublin
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Dublin to Holyhead
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Northwich, Hexham, Hartlepool, Durham, Louth, Hexham.
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Grand Final 2019
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