We're back..... arrived home Friday night after a fortnight in France looking like a couple of rusty wallnuts. The weather was superb if a little damp at the outset.
Although warm it was showery initially and in fact we had a terrific downpour one night combined with a hefty helping of thunder and lightening.
Following an overnight stay in Dunkerque we set off for Antwerp where Wendy's father is buried. He was killed in the November as she was born in December just at the end of the second world war.
The picture above is a monument to the fallen of World War II and stands at the entrance to the immacutaley kept Schoonselhof War Graves Cemetery at Hoboken, a suburb of Antwerp.
From Antwerp we headed south intending to stay somewhere in the Ardenne but we fetched up in Epernay. 20 km south of Rheims, Epernay is the capital town of Champagne. Simply beautiful countryside with chalky stone hillsides lined with mile after mile of grapevines.
Our site in Epernay was alongside the river Marne which rises north of Dijon and flows into the Seine just outside Paris. Painted by Pissaro, Cezanne and many others it is a beautiful soft green colour. We stayed there the two weeks and had a wonderful time walking and exploring the vines of France.
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