Bouncing Along 🎈 (Sohaila's Blog)

Memories of a different  world  when the borders were porous Christmas 2019 I am a road tripper. My dad used to love taking us all up to the mountains in the summer in old Bessie, our neon green ambassador (the only one on Delhi roads), that used to drunkenly meander around hair pin bends with father at the wheel, moving from the dust and stink of the plains to the cool and fragrant air of the Himalayas. I guess the genes winked into life in my son Ameya too, who has already taken me on two fantastic road trips in North America.     This Christmas, we decide on Europe. France, Austria & U.K. to be precise. We are clear we want to spend Christmas in France & New Year's Eve in London. The rest has to fit in between.   Our first stop is Paris, from where our family friend Penny picks us up and takes us home, in the lovely little village of Dormelles, about an hour and a half's drive through the jewel green French countryside. Dormelles Dormelles is a commune in