Journal Comments - Grampies Grand Return to France: Summer 2024 - CycleBlaze

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From Grampies Grand Return to France: Summer 2024 by Steve Miller/Grampies

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Karen Poret commented on Day 23: Caen to Lisieux

Her life was simple and she led life by this belief.

10 months ago
Karen Poret commented on a photo in Day 23: Caen to Lisieux

Not such a “little flower” is she?

10 months ago
Karen Poret commented on a photo in Day 23: Caen to Lisieux

And, oh, those organ pipes :)

10 months ago
Karen Poret commented on a photo in Day 23: Caen to Lisieux

From my brainy husband: wall sundial has a figure of eight showing the months of the year. The projecting piece casts a shadow to show the time. It is technically listed as a “vertical sundial”

10 months ago
Marvin Paxman commented on a photo in Day 20: Chatelain to Mayenne

Great picture!

10 months ago
Steve Miller/Grampies replied to a comment by Scott Anderson on a photo in Day 23: Caen to Lisieux

They didn't feel so good either!

10 months ago
Scott Anderson commented on a photo in Day 23: Caen to Lisieux

Oh, good! I didn’t like the looks of those stairs.

10 months ago
Scott Anderson commented on Day 22: Flers to Caen

Hey, you’re staying at the Hotel Astrid! That’s where we meet up with Susan in a few weeks. You made it in record time - we’re going to spend 4 days plus a layover in Clecy riding from Caen to Laval, and you did it in 2-1/2!

10 months ago
Karen Poret commented on a photo in Day 22: Flers to Caen

Herb ( Caen) would be glad you are on the way to “his” namesake village.

10 months ago
Steve Miller/Grampies replied to a comment by Kelly Iniguez on a photo in Day 21: Mayenne to Flers

Steve here, with a bit more info. Booking.com has to our view been rather infested with things that are not hotels, and you get chambres d'hote by default. You can screen them out by selecting the filter "hotels' in the filters section. I think I saw an isolate tick box somewhere too, for "I am looking for an apartment".

If the thing is not a traditional hotel, then it can vary, from a room in somebody's house, sharing their bathroom and eating breakfast with them, to a separate apartment that somebody is renting out on the short term basis - usually called a "gites" here.

Other than Booking, the sources would be AirBnB, and a major one: gites de france.

10 months ago
Steve Miller/Grampies replied to a comment by Karen Poret on a photo in Day 21: Mayenne to Flers

Oh, Joe would love you!

10 months ago
Steve Miller/Grampies replied to a comment by Kelly Iniguez on a photo in Day 21: Mayenne to Flers

We use booking.com which lists apartments, hotels, Chambre d'hotes, etc. There may be a site for chambre d'hotes specifically, but we don't know of it.

10 months ago
Karen Poret commented on a photo in Day 21: Mayenne to Flers

Never seen a Dalmatian horse before..butt….🙄

10 months ago
Kelly Iniguez replied to a comment by Steve Miller/Grampies on a photo in Day 21: Mayenne to Flers

We will be spending time in France in 2025. Where are the chamber’ de hotes listed, please? Just in case

10 months ago
Steve Miller/Grampies replied to a comment by Bill Shaneyfelt on a photo in Day 21: Mayenne to Flers

Great info. If you were stung, it was not a fly!

10 months ago