After Bayeux we drove across the Cherbourg peninsula to Camping aux Pommiers, a campsite close to the historic Abbey at Mont St Michel. This pleasant site is in Beauvoir, about 4 km from the Mont. There is a good cycle…
Yearly Archives: 2014
La Vezere via Mont St Michel
Tagged with: dordogne, france, Mavis, mont st michel, motorhome, uzerche, vezere
Posted in - France, 2013 Spring, 2014 Autumn, Bayeux, Limousin, Lower Normandy, Mont Saint Michel, Uzerche
Posted in - France, 2013 Spring, 2014 Autumn, Bayeux, Limousin, Lower Normandy, Mont Saint Michel, Uzerche
Brighton to Bayeux
We left Brighton campsite at about 7.45 am for a short drive along the coast, past Roedean school, to pick up the Newhaven – Dieppe ferry which left at 10 am. Fout hours later we tied up at Dieppe…
Cumbria to Brighton
Welcome to the new look blog. We have added an index to some of the sites we have visited on the right, classified by country then region…just click on the place name to see the linked blog post. There are…
C’est Cosmique
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…
Tagged with: chateau ganspette, erercleques, france, la mailleraye sur seine, Mavis, motorhome, photography, V1, V2
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, La Mailleraye-sur-Seine, Nord-Pas de Calais, St Omer, Upper Normandy
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, La Mailleraye-sur-Seine, Nord-Pas de Calais, St Omer, Upper Normandy
Eels for Tea
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…
Tagged with: france, la mailleraye sur seine, Mavis, motorhome, Normandy, photography
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, La Mailleraye-sur-Seine, Nonancourt, Upper Normandy
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, La Mailleraye-sur-Seine, Nonancourt, Upper Normandy
Sully-sur-Loire
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…
Tagged with: Centre, cycling, france, le jardin de sully, Mavis, motorhome, photography, Sully sur loire
Posted in - France, 2013 Spring, Pays-de-la-Loire, Sully-sur-Loire
Posted in - France, 2013 Spring, Pays-de-la-Loire, Sully-sur-Loire
Stripped!
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…
Tagged with: Centre, cycling, france, motorhome, Nevers, photography
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, Bourgogne, Nevers
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, Bourgogne, Nevers
The Ancient Mariner
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…
Tagged with: france, La Malzieu Ville, Mavis, motorhome, photography, St Pourcain sur Sioule
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, Auvergne, St Pourcain-sur-Sioule
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, Auvergne, St Pourcain-sur-Sioule
Comps
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…
Tagged with: Aire, aires, Comps, france, Haute-Provence, Mavis, motorhome, photography
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, Comps, Languedoc-Roussillon
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, Comps, Languedoc-Roussillon
Gordes
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…
Tagged with: Aire, france, Gordes, Haute-Provence, Luberon, Mavis, mistral, motorhome, photography
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, Gordes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, Gordes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
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