Framedlight

This is another blast from the recent past, a trip to the Alps made in the spring of this year. It was a holiday that lengthened slightly due to transport breakdown, and changed weatherwise from cold to quite hot over the course of a couple of days. We started by taking the campervan across to Calais via the Tunnel. We used to use the ferry as we enjoyed the trip but the dog took against it with slightly dirty protest, so since then we have gone underground. We had booked a small apartment in Montchavin in the French Alps in case the snow was deep, in which case the van would struggle. We need not have worried as there was not a lot of the white stuff around when we finally arrived. However we did spend a while getting there as there were a couple of things we wanted to take in on the journey. The first was an interesting trip to le Fort Nieulay, one of two fortifications built to defend Calais in the 15th and 16th centuries, when it was in English hands. This fort stands by some sl...