Monday 9 July 2012

Travelling south


This is an interim post only, because I am travelling south all day Monday 9th to catch the ferry from Portsmouth to St Malo in France. Tuesday we shall continue driving south, hopefully into sunshine, through Rennes, Nantes, Angouleme, then down to Perigeaux and our final destination near Bergerac. We're looking forward to seeing the sun in France. It's been so long since that glorious but unseasonal week in March....

The castle pictured on the right is Newcastle Keep, which is a fine example of a Norman keep.  The website is:
http://www.castlekeepnewcastle.org.uk/keep_index.htm
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