I spent Tuesday morning landrovering round the Donana National Park, with Javi Tosar, a local guide, in search of the local fauna. Donana is just next to the El Rocio site, and is one of the two remaining habitats for…
Yearly Archives: 2012
El Rocio. We have Snails.
Does the gastronomy of Spain know no bounds? br />;;;;;;;;;;; This is Queen Nia the wise, tucking in to tapas and vino, in El Rocio, a wild west town transposed somehow to Southern Spain. El Rocio was founded in 1270…
Montfrague National Park
We stopped at Camping Montfrague, on the edge of the Montfrague national park, for a few days. Montfrague is in Extremadura, mid Spain. Half way down, on the left side, quite close to Portugal, to be precise. The flower is…
Posted in 2012 Autumn
Burgos……Colin under fire
We set off from Zarautz and pointed Mavis South, through the mountains of Northern Spain. When you see Toros appearing through the mist you know you are in the right country…..these large and striking silhouettes are placed along roadsides throughout…
Posted in 2012 Autumn, 2013 Spring
CapBreton to Zarautz…Estamos en Espana.
We have had some blogging gremlins….hopefully this post will appear, if a bit late..if so thanks to Chris…technical back up from Wales. Last night in CapBreton On Friday we drove to Zarautz, which is a small town in Northern Spain,…
Posted in 2013 Spring
CapBreton
CapBreton It was lovely to come back to the aire at Capbreton; we visited here once before on our first French tour in Spring 2010 and we love the place. Breakfast The aire is right on the beach and a…
Posted in 2013 Spring
Heading South
With overcast skies and more rain forecast we decided to press on south. We have marked Camping Le Thouet as a site to return to. It’s on our favourites list. We had an overnight stop at Camping Bignac, where it…
Posted in 2013 Spring
Cycling to Saumur
Camping Le Thouet is on a cycle route to Saumur so we decided to have a day cycling through the vineyards. We had a beautiful day for it with just the occasional fluffy white cloud but otherwise wall to wall…
Posted in 2013 Spring
Lassay les Chateaux to the Loire Valley
Having woken early with the noise of the rain, we decided to start out before breakfast from Lassay les Chateaux and again had a pleasant drive, due south to Montreuil-Bellay about 20k beyond Saumur and set amongst the vineyards of…
Posted in 2013 Spring
La Mailleraye sur Seine to Lassay les Chateaux
After a couple of very relaxing days at La Mailleraye sur Seine we were woken on Wednesday morning by the pitter patter of rain on Mavis’ roof. We decided to use the wet weather as a good reason to move…
Posted in 2013 Spring
Our Dordogne Guide Book is now available. See motorhomefrance.com
Travels with Mavis 