We know a crisp glass of wine won’t be everyone’s tipple of choice, so why not replace this with an ice cold beer as the first drink to enjoy on your decking while watching the sun go down? Dave Ryan from The Independent on Sunday travelled to Lake Garda and discovered a delicious array of [...]
Why not enhance your Tuscan holiday by taking advantage of the experience of a local operator who knows where to find the hidden treasures of the region. And at the same time, avoid driving your car in the Italian traffic. Camping Norcenni Girasole Club, besides maintaining a wonderful campsite, also manages “Norcenni Tours” which can [...]
I thought I’d write a bit of a blog about our (my husband and myself) experiences of the Vendée. You never know – you might find something useful in it that you didn’t know. When our children were little, we spent a few 2-week holidays in The Vendée. We love the scenery of Brittany, and [...]
Our resident wine expert Simon Woods has chosen four delicious wines from Provence to recommend in his second wine video blog. Provence is most famous for its rosé so no wine list would be complete without a couple of varieties. In fact up to 70% of the wine from Provence is pink, meaning it is [...]
Manchester blogger, Adam Moss, took his family on an Al Fresco holiday to Estartit in Spain last summer and wanted to share his experiences with us considering it had been “a full three decades since [he] last took on the challenge of a family camping holiday.” Here is his story… Back then, in the early [...]
Having just enjoyed a relaxing sailing back from St Malo, I thought I’d let you know about the Brittany Ferries wine fortnight coming up between the 3rd and 17th May. During the crossing there is the chance to meet a wine grower, learn much about wine in general and then sign up for tastings and [...]
What’s one of the best things about arriving on holiday? Once you’ve explored the parc and the kids are happily running round outside, the next step has got to be enjoying the first glass of wine in the evening on your own decking area, while the BBQ heats up. Our wine expert, Simon Woods, has [...]
Hi and welcome back to the second part of my Al Fresco Corsican road trip. As promised we are going to be looking at places to visit on the Cap, however before I go any further, I do need to discuss a very important and essential part of any road trip! the music, and which [...]
