Our reason for going to Simacourbe was very specific: we wanted to see a real Carmelite convent. We had been looking for a functioning enclosed religious community in this part of the Pyrenees-Atlantiques, and in this tiny village we found the Carmel Notre-Dame de la...
Lourdes was one of the places we had particularly wanted to see during this part of our journey through south-western France. We arrived by motorhome while travelling with our dog, which immediately made the visit slightly more complicated because ordinary dogs are...
Mont-de-Marsan was another of the practical stops that naturally become part of a long journey by motorhome. We had not planned a proper sightseeing visit to the city; what we needed that day was simply to do some shopping and restock the motorhome before continuing...
After Saint-Macaire we continued south and stopped in Bazas, another historic town that we wanted to see rather than simply drive past. We arrived with the motorhome and spent some time walking through the centre, where almost everything seems to lead towards the...
Our journey through south-western France brought us to Saint-Macaire, a small historic town in the Gironde overlooking the Garonne. After so many rural villages and practical stops along the road, this was the kind of place that immediately justified taking a little...
