Busy weekend ahead (3 days of fairs) so a morning ride out to a favourite coffee stop for emergency carrot cake! Always so good
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Living our best life in France, cycling, walking & pootling around The Luberon, Provence in Fifi our 2CV....
2 months today, we will ve setting out to walk the Fisherman’s Trail, along the coast of Portugal…. Our first multi-day walk and hopefully another lovely little adventure… so today, we walked over the cliffs to Sidmouth and hack for a bit of training 😀. Always a beautiful walk
Three weeks today, we’ll be back on a ferry at the start of our cycle ride home …. Planning is well in hand and I have a feeling it will be here before we know it! vauclusedreamer.com/2026/08/01/t...
Three Weeks Today: Planning the Route from Devon to Provence, by Bike
Three weeks today we’ll be setting off from Devon on a cycle ride home to Provence. In this post I share how we’re planning the route, and the decisions behind choosing quiet roads, and the best pl…
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3 weeks today, we’ll be back on the bikes pedalling to Exeter to catch a train to Plymouth, for the start of our ride home …. Sitting in the garden finalising the route, this morning and have a feeling it will be here before we know it!!
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I know we like to have lots of adventures in the pipeline, but hopefully a big one for next summer now we have the dates for next year’s Exeter Craft Festival. Inspired by @cbcycles.bsky.social and a mother from North Devon (towing 2 children) we’re planning to ride to John O’Groats (between Fairs)
Stopped at Cosford RAF museum with youngest, yesterday. Seeing this Wellington Bomber made the hairs stand on the back of my neck-one of these crashed into the hillside above Simiane-La-Rotonde … a truly tragic set of circumstances and the most poignant of sites vauclusedreamer.com/2017/12/20/a...
🇫🇷 Alpe d'Huez is getting ready! (Please keep it safe 🙏) 🎥 @deleadout
Pusscat took a supervisory role on this morning’s chat about some of the jewellery I’ll be taking to Mid Devon Show tomorrow… www.instagram.com/reel/DbKlqeG...
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First day that we’ve had time to get out on the bikes l, since arriving back from France, 3 weeks ago. So where better to go than pootle through the hack lanes to the Dovetail Cafe at The Antiques Village. Best carrot cake in the area!
Have the bones of the first stage of our route home. First stage ends in Toulouse, in tome for Provence Rugby’s first away match against Colomiers
Pusscat’s favourite cross-legged position … she’s much better since having her thyroid out, last week … it’s made such a difference
Frazzled after abandoning the drive back to Devon from my mum’s … after battling through Birmingham with warnings of an hour delay between 2 junctions at Gloucester and 3 hour delay between Bristol and Exeter .. have cut my losses and turned off to stay with a friend tonight. Wine will be drunk!
This is still the best french lesson I’ve ever had …. Speaking, comprehension, french culture and our own hand-made baguette to take home with us … Marina’s lessons are just wonderful vauclusedreamer.com/2025/07/17/w...
When french lessons are fun
Sometimes a french lesson just hits the spot, and the latest ‘atelier’, organised by Marina, our lovely and very patient teacher and friend was about as good as a lesson can get We were…
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A last minute jewellery inspection by a very friendly little hopper … nearly time to pack up and go home. Wine is required!
All set up for day 2 at the Craft Festival on Exeter Cathedral Green … the shinies are looking sparkly in the morning sun www.instagram.com/reel/DamxgdE...
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Seen in an old cookbook, a recipe that resonates with me today.
Up and ready to go for day 2 of Exeter Craft Festival…. Going to be hot again, so deploying a frock . This doesn’t happen often!
Disappearing down the rabbit hole of cycle route planning for our ride home …. Is it wrong to try to find a route to stop at a cake shop you have wanted to visit for quite a while?
With the ProD2 rugby fixtures being posted today, we can start to plan our return bike ride, from Devon back to Provence. It appears, we will be pedalling back via Colomiers! vauclusedreamer.com/2026/07/09/t...
Time to plan the cycle ride home (Rugby included!)
Not even 2 weeks have passed since we landed in Plymouth, after cycling back from Provence. And today, we’ve started getting excited about our return trip. Last year, our cycle back from the UK was…
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Oh, another adventure. Now this is exciting. BTW, ahead of my biggest adventure I've ever taken on I've started a blog. I'm using Substack as my base and just written my second peice.... cbcycles.substack.com/p/the-edge-o...
The edge of the Abyss
Or in other words, pre event excitement and nerves
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The ProD2 season is out and our plan to cycle back to Provence means we can work out a route to watch the first away match for Provence Rugby at Colomiers … better pack a flag!!
All set up for the next 3 days at Exeter Craft Festival , on the Cathedral Green , with lots of new pieces of wearable history … first coffee of the day has been drunk
Escaped for a while all to Budleigh, this afternoon…. It was just what I needed
Pusscat does have some strange behaviour, now she’s older. There’s plenty of water for her in the house, but her chosen drinking hole of the moment is an old watering can in the garden…(now kept topped up with fresh water for her delight)
After a busy week up at my Mum’s, back with youngest and Pusscat tonight in East Devon, up to my eyeballs getting ready for this weekend’s Exeter Craft Festival… is it really only 10 days ago that we were cycling in France 🤯
