The sun came out for our second day at La Mailleraye sur Seine. English words ending in ic translate to ique in french, as I understand it. So economic becomes economique, politic becomes politique, etc.. So I felt reasonably comfortable…
The sun came out for our second day at La Mailleraye sur Seine. English words ending in ic translate to ique in french, as I understand it. So economic becomes economique, politic becomes politique, etc.. So I felt reasonably comfortable…
We drove 80 miles north to an aire (N 48.77259 E 1.19214 ) at Nonancourt which is a small town about 40 miles north of Chartres. We often listen to audiobooks on the longer drives. At the moment we have…
We drove 80 miles north west , with the Loire on our left all the way, to Camping ‘Le Jardin de Sully’ at Saint Père sur Loire (N 47.77008 E 2.36191). This is a small ACSI campsite on the north…
We drove an easy 60 miles up the N7 to Nevers and stopped there for a couple of nights at Camping Nevers (N46.98222 E 2.36191). This is a small and friendly site on the south bank of the Loire, looking…
We drove 144 miles north from Comps to the aire at Malzieu Ville (N 44.85515 E 3.33346). We took the N 106 which is a very twisty and exciting road through the mountains. Too exciting perhaps….the French HGV’s thunder along…
Just a brief entry today; we have had a few days without wifi and I am writing this from a McDonalds, usually a good source of broadband but it is very slow at the moment. We stopped for a night…
We moved west a few miles to Gordes, an old town with Roman roots on a hill overlooking the Luberon valley. We stayed at the aire to the west of Gordes (N 43.914142 E 5.197184) . Surrounded on several sides…
We drove the short distance from Rustrel to Roussillon and stayed in the Aire ( N 43.896452 E 5.295878) ….a large car park, quiet, €9 for the night. After lunch we headed into Roussillon, about 1/4 of a mile from…
We drove about 10 km to the north of Apt to stay at Rustrel, at the recommendation of the girl in the reception at Camping Luberon. Rustrel is a small hillside village, with the requisite chateau, in this case 17th…
On Friday we walked up to Saignon from the campsite. Saignon is famous for its rock, see above, a landmark visible from far away. The GR 92 footpath is a well defined track leading up to Saignon from the road…