The Joy of Solo Travel The concept of solo travel often conjures up images of lone adventurers traversing vast landscapes or intrepid explorers embarking on daring expeditions. While these depictions hold a certain allure, they often overshadow the profound benefits and unique experiences that solo travel has to offer, even for those [...]
Our top painting destinations and how to get the best out of painting en plein air. Have you dreamed about painting abroad, but are not sure where to go and what holiday to choose? We’ve been running our painting holidays in France for a number of years. We were featured in [...]
Only 1 space available!! Over the years, between us, Si and I have done a number of trips to Morocco including a motorbike trip around Morocco for a month in 2018. We’ve nicknamed it “the nearest faraway land”. For those based in Europe or the UK, it’s a short hop by plane before you [...]
Finally, the world feels like it opening up again. Each day, the travel between countries seems to be a little less restricted. And, the good news is that we can finally welcome all our lovely guests from around the world to come paint with us here in our little piece of paradise in the south [...]
Here in France we are on a serious 'lock-down'. This means that we're housebound with trips out being limited to supermarkets and pharmacies. Light local exercise is permitted albeit with a printed statement and passport in your pocket, including dog walks. All this means that we'll be spending a great deal of time in [...]
We all sometime wonder what it must be like to be in the limelight, how would we handle it? Our opportunity came along this summer when we got through the selection process to be filmed for A New Life in the Sun. A reality TV show that follows the lives of expats who have moved [...]
When one thinks about France, one of the first things to come to mind is the food. Cute little corner cafés, freshly baked French breads, the array of French cheeses; the fresh seasonal delights of a French market and the pastries… oh…the pastries. And so it goes on and on. On our holidays you will [...]
January - and we're both busy planning dates for workshops and classes (Painting and Cooking) plus fine-tuning our plans for this years' Painting Holidays in France. At this time of year we're often on the look out for new venues to paint from. There are some beautiful locations in old Béziers up around the cathedral [...]
Ever since I started travelling more earnestly - back in a previous century - I've done my best to keep a travel journal. Looking back at them now, some were just a series of rough dates and towns, purely a reminder of where I'd actually been. On a motorcycle trip overland to Kathmandu in 2005/6 [...]
Our first Painting Holiday guests arrived at the end of May, as temperatures began to rise - four ladies from America: Kasia and Mary Jo travelling together from just outside Washington and Emanda, with her mother Sandra, all the way from Texas. Coincidentally, they'd spent a few days enjoying the sights of Paris before taking [...]
