Monthly Archives: May 2014

Hilltop Villages of the Luberon

We moved a few miles to camping La Rivière near St Maime, one of the hilltop villages of the Luberon mountains. It is a pleasant, informal, site with large pitches; we parked in front of a lake. There is a

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Posted in 2014 Spring, Dauphin, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, St Maime

Poppies

Colin, Penny, Max and I walked up the half mile or so to the village to visit the Boulangerie first thing. Baguette, croissant and tartelette aux poires. No danger of starvation in France. There is a footpath up to the

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Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, Pont-du-Fosse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Harleys

After our stay in Heidelberg we drove down through Switzerland and spent the night at La Balme de Sillingy ( N 45.971242 E 6.031601 ), an aire by a lake near Annecy. The forecast for Northern Europe wasn’t great and

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Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, Pont-du-Fosse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Saint Michel l'Observatoire, Sisteron

Heidelberg

On Tuesday we drove up to Heidelberg. We stayed at a slightly damp Camping Heidelberg; a grassy site on the River Neckar, about 5km from the centre of Heidelberg. Our great friend Farshid has a house in Heidelberg and he

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Posted in - Germany, 2014 Spring, Baden-Württemberg, Heidelberg

Flying Over the Vines

On the second day at Ile du Rhin we cycled up through the forests on the German side of the Rhine. The cycleway crosses the Mohlin (a tributary of the Rhine) first, then there are lots of deserted tracks through

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Posted in - Germany, 2014 Spring, Bad Durkhein, Rheinland-Palatinate

Why is this Lady Riding a Fish?

We moved north on Thursday and stayed at Camping Etang des Forges (N 47.654693 E 6.864738) in Belfort, a small site by a lake. On Friday we moved into Germany and drove a short distance up the Rhein to Breisach.

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Posted in - Germany, 2014 Spring, Baden-Württemberg, Breisach

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