Driving from city to city it was time to lay back at the beach, listen to the waves and soak up some sun.

The road through Italy would take us from Milan to Venice on the way in and Trieste to Modena on the way out.

This year's family vacation called for an epic road trip that would last 2 full weeks, traversing over 4,000km from Barcelona to Dubrovnik and back.

In early September my father and I took a little road trip from Paris to Barcelona, on the way we stopped in a commune in the Haute-Loire region, in south central France, called Puy-en-Velay.