After our night in a bog standard car park in Miramar, we woke to a text message from Nina’s Mum to check we were OK.
Category: Road trips
Before we had kids, we just loved taking off on road trips! Heck, we even loved just sitting in the car, chatting or listening to music. Among the bottomless heap of reasons for moving over here was our desire to explore surrounding areas as a family. Not only within France, but the neighbouring countries of Italy, Spain, Switzerland and beyond!
A couple of years ago, we converted a VW Transporter van and consequently we brought it with us to the Alps. The kids (now 8 and 5) love to camp and as long as we’ve enough snacks to see us through and some decent movies on the iPad, they are happy road trippin’, too.
As we take road trips and post about them, we’ll put them here. Don’t forget to follow us on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest… Lots of ‘Roaaaaaaad Triiiiip’ related goodies over there, too.
Bastille Day and a dodgy detour in St Tropez
We hit St Aygulf beach for an hour in the morning before treating the kids to the double-scoop ice creams that I’d promised them for
Gorges du Verdon
We woke in Alpe d’Huez to a much calmer day, cold though… 11°C and we had packed for summer. Brilliant! We sorted the van out,
A seriously wild camp near Alpe d’Huez
Two hours into the road trip and our first significant detour was underway and it was about to lead to a seriously wild camp in
Road trip to the south of France
ROAD TRIP!! We arrived home on Monday after our first road trip from Les Gets and our first ever visit to the south of France. With
We dodged the storms and hit the weather jackpot on the Isles of Barra and Vatersay
Where do you go on holiday when you’ve just moved to the French Alps? Scotland, of course! Barra and Vatersay in the Outer Hebrides to