On my first night I stayed at the Hôtel all seasons Bordeaux Saint Jean which is 200 metres away from Bordeaux Saint Jean SNCF Gare (Train Station). It was previously called the Kyriad. On the second night, at La Réole, I stayed at a wonderful guest house called Les Galantes where owners Fréderique et Jean [...]
Today is truly the first day of spring. It is 16C. I drove to Toulouse – to spend some money at IKEA – and then I headed in the car about 12 km south of Toulouse to Ramonville-St-Agne. From Ramonville-St-Agne I cycled along the Canal du Midi into Toulouse at the start of the Canal [...]
Unputdownable! That is the only way in which I can start describing Peter and Maria Burkill’s book called Thirty Seconds to Impact. I started reading it at 3pm and continued devouring all 325 pages of it in one sitting until I was finished. It contains the Captain’s account of how, on 17 January 2008, [...]
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