Chateau Richeux Redux
Would you drive four hours for a millefeuille? Mr. Misadventures would. Last October when we landed at Charles de Gaulle we rented a car and drove an hour to stay at Les Jardins d’epicure. It allowed us to make...
Relais Chateau: Le Fort de l’Ocean – Part 2
Having arrived, rested and thoroughly enjoying our first afternoon at Relais Chateau property Le Fort de l’Ocean, the next treat in store for us was dinner. As was customary at all our other stays on this trip, we planned to try...
Relais Chateau: Hôtel de la Plage
You know the saying: location, location, location? Well the Relais Chateau hotel, Hôtel de la Plage in Sainte Anne La Palud, has it in spades. You feel like you are at the end of the world, just you and...
Relais Chateau: Hotel Brittany
In trying to figure out the best way to write about my latest trip to France I have decided to write posts that mimic how we actually did our trip. I already detailed our launching post, the Relais Chateau...
Cancale France – Brittany’s Oyster Capital
Mr. Misadventures and I were first lured to Cancale, a coastal fishing village and oyster capital of Brittany (and France), by an episode of Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations (Season 5, Episode 22). The year was 2010 the place was...
National Croissant Day – My Croissant Travel Stories
Happy National Croissant Day!!!! I love to travel and I love food. The two items are woven together, unable to be separated and are the things I am most obsessed with in life. Thankfully I have a hubby that...
Currently October 2018
Currently | 10.30.18 Watching | Mad Men & A Star is Born > We finished streaming Mad Men and Mr. Misadventures is kicking himself for not watching earlier! I love the clothes and furniture and style of the 60’s...
A meal at The Willows Inn Lummi Island (Part 2)
Ballet. Discipline. Harmony. Home. These were the words that kept popping into my head as I spent an evening in the presence of epicurean mastery at The Willows Inn on Lummi Island in the San Juan Islands. I wrote...
Road Trip Report – Brittany Part 1
Having established ourselves at the Hotel Brittany, we spent the next couple of days exploring the region around Roscoff. There were a few things we knew we definitely were going to do, including hiking along the sentiers côtiers (coastal...
Misadventures in France 2010 – Part 7
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. After three enchanting days at the edge of a sea cliff, we tumbled down into the Loire valley and into the rocks. Okay, it was by choice, but what is dramatic about writing...
Misadventures in France 2010 – Part 6
On our last day in Brittany, we visited Le Mont Saint Michel, a village famous for its cathedral which becomes impossible to access once the tide is high. We could not come this far west without taking the time...
Misadventures in France 2010 – Part 5
One of the unadvertised benefits of Chateau Richeux’s (where we checked during Part 4) location is that it is right on the a coastal trail that allows you to walk for miles to either town in either direction. Part...