FRANCE - PROVENCE AND VENDEE PART 2 - 2010

View from the castle mount Vaison La Romaine

Early morning shots @ the Village of Gigondas

THE NEW 2010-2011 PREMIER SEASON FOR STOKE CITY

We start mid August with a brand new third season on the Premiership, i have tagged on this years fixtures as follows.

Saturday, August 14 2010
Wolverhampton Wanderers 2 - 1 Stoke City (15.00) 0 - Points

Saturday, August 21 2010
Stoke City 1 - 2 Tottenham Hotspur (15.00) 0 - Points

Saturday, August 28 2010
Chelsea - Stoke City (15.00)


Monday, September 13 2010
Stoke City - Aston Villa (20.00)

Saturday, September 18 2010
Stoke City - West Ham United (12.45)

Sunday, September 26 2010
Newcastle United - Stoke City (16.10)


Saturday, October 2 2010
Stoke City - Blackburn Rovers (15.00)

Saturday, October 16 2010
Bolton Wanderers - Stoke City (15.00)

Sunday, October 24 2010
Stoke City - Manchester United (13.30)

Saturday, October 30 2010
Everton - Stoke City (15.00)


Saturday, November 6 2010
Sunderland - Stoke City (15.00)

Tuesday, November 9 2010
Stoke City - Birmingham City (19.45)

Saturday, November 13 2010
Stoke City - Liverpool (17.30)

Saturday, November 20 2010
West Bromwich Albion - Stoke City (15.00)

Saturday, November 27 2010
Stoke City - Manchester City (15.00)


Saturday, December 4 2010
Wigan Athletic - Stoke City (15.00)

Saturday, December 11 2010
Stoke City - Blackpool (15.00)

Saturday, December 18 2010
Arsenal - Stoke City (15.00)

Sunday, December 26 2010
Blackburn Rovers - Stoke City (15.00)

Tuesday, December 28 2010
Stoke City - Fulham (15.00)


Saturday, January 1 2011
Stoke City - Everton (15.00)

Tuesday, January 4 2011
Manchester United - Stoke City (19.45)

Saturday, January 15 2011
Stoke City - Bolton Wanderers (15.00)

Saturday, January 22 2011
Fulham - Stoke City (15.00)


Wednesday, February 2 2011
Liverpool - Stoke City (19.45)

Saturday, February 5 2011
Stoke City - Sunderland (15.00)

Saturday, February 12 2011
Birmingham City - Stoke City (15.00)

Saturday, February 26 2011
Stoke City - West Bromwich Albion (15.00)


Saturday, March 5 2011
West Ham United - Stoke City (15.00)

Saturday, March 19 2011
Stoke City - Newcastle United (15.00)


Saturday, April 2 2011
Stoke City - Chelsea (15.00)

Saturday, April 9 2011
Tottenham Hotspur - Stoke City (15.00)

Saturday, April 16 2011
Stoke City - Wolverhampton Wanderers (15.00)

Saturday, April 23 2011
Aston Villa - Stoke City (15.00)

Saturday, April 30 2011
Blackpool - Stoke City (15.00)


Saturday, May 7 2011
Stoke City - Arsenal (15.00)

Saturday, May 14 2011
Manchester City - Stoke City (15.00)

Sunday, May 22 2011
Stoke City - Wigan Athletic (15.00)

QUEEN WE WILL ROCK YOU CONCERT WARWICK CASTLE 17TH JULY 2010

"LOOK UP TO THE SKIES" - GREAT SONG LINE - GREAT FIREWORK DISPLAY TO END THE NIGHT OF GREAT QUEEN NOSTALGIA

READ BELOW FOR OUR ROCK NIGHT OUT


Excellant lively crowd as the night moved on

We were amongst 5000 queen fans at this outdoor concert Warwick Castle, with live music of Queen the rock band performed by the National Symphany Orchester and Queen Rock Band.

We enjoyed a lovely quality picnic food by Linda and Martin, we supplied all the wine and beer.

We had a most wonderfull night, with great performed songs, we were certainly rocked and to conclude the night encour with "Look up to the Skies" fire work display.

Great tracks performed included -A kind of Magic, Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Ga Ga, We Are The Champions, Somebody To Love, Who Wants To Live Forever, Killer Queen, Don’t Stop Me now, Fat Bottomed Girls, I Want It All, and many more.

Cynth - Linda and Martin enjoying the night.

FRANCE - PROVENCE - PART1 - SUMMER HOLIDAYS

Mont Ventoux 1900metre summitt

The village of Gordes in the Luberon

Vaison La Romaine - Roman Centre for the region

Lavender fields in the Luberon

Lunch in Malaucene - Rainer go steady with the Frenchies

Looking south Feel the Mistral from the North of France

Villages of Gigondas and Crestet Provence

Dantelles Gigondas Natalie and Sally at the Dantelle summit

Crestet from the Pottery Store

Trip to Crestet and Pottery Shop - Extremely hot

Birthday meal at Saint Herbert Entrechaux

Trip out to Seguret locally to have cold drinks

Morning trips to Sablet to get the french breakfast provision

My Birthday in Provence and on this day we enjoyed a 9french jet air display in front of our eyes, which we cannot belive this happened on this day

We had to meet up with the Villa organisers in Vaison La Romaine, who were very friendly, at theis point the weather was extremely hot. We all followed the organizer to Seguret and finally to the Villa. The final roads to the Villa were rough tracks up hill 800feet above sea levelWwere all gob smacked when we saw the Villa it was amazing quality place

We all left at approx 9.00am from Dijon, onroute to the south and hopefully meet with the Filitz Famy near Vienne.The weather was still very good blue skies, we encountered large volumes of traffic near Lyon, so we by passed the huge city via the airport.
We finally came off the motorway next to the River Rhone @ Vienne, we travelled approx 15mins where we met the Filitz Family at a commercial park MacDonalds. It was wonderfull to see them all. A difficult descision to get back on the motorway, as the large volumes of traffic was at a stand still, we finally got off the junction before Bollene. We crosssed the lovely wineyards and passing through wonderful villgaes and great lavender fields.

Morning stroll before breakfast in Dijon

Evening stay in Dijon

Norfolk Lines Ferry - 2hours crossing
We arrived at the Port of Dover on thursday morning 1st July 2010, for our 10.00am crossing to Dunkerque.The skies were blue and would follow us all the way to a village in Provence called Seguret in the Vacluse Region.We by passed Lille, Rhiems onroute for a overnite stay in Dijon. For the first time we took a Logis Hotel for this overnite stay, called the Hotel Du Stad, excellant food, we decided to have a good walking tour of Dijon.