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Aigues Mortes….Back to the Camargue.

Today (Thursday 16th) we returned to the aire at Agues Mortes ( N 43.565712 E 4.19593). We were here a few months ago en route to Arles. This is the fabulous thirteenth century walled city which was built by Louis

Posted in - France, 2013 Spring, 2014 Autumn, Aigues Mortes, Languedoc-Roussillon

Marseillan Plage

We are at Marseillan Plage, a little further east along the med from Narbonne. We are staying at Camping La Plage (N 43.309738 deg. E 3.546116 deg ) E . This is, as its name implies, right on the beach

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Posted in - France, 2014 Autumn, Languedoc-Roussillon, Marseillan Plage

Narbonne and the Canal de la Robine

There is a good cycle ride in to the centre of Narbonne alongside the Canal de la Robine. This is the link canal from the River Aude to the Canal du Midi (the canal linking the mediterranean to the Garonne

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Posted in - France, 2014 Autumn, Languedoc-Roussillon, Narbonne

Narbonne…Camping La Nautique

We are at Camping La Nautique (N 43.147591 E 3.004611), a campsite on the shore of Lake Bages-Sigean. This is about 4 miles from Narbonne. The lake extends for about 10 miles through a national park to the Mediterranean; La

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Posted in 2014 Autumn, Languedoc-Roussillon, Narbonne

Vers

The target for today was an aire in the old town of Cahors. However we discovered that the aire we were heading for had only three spaces, and as we approached Cahors in the late afternoon it seemed very busy

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Posted in - France, 2014 Autumn, Midi-Pyrénées, Vers

La Vezere via Mont St Michel

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

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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

Posted in - United Kingdom, 2014 Autumn, Newhaven, Sussex

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

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Posted in - United Kingdom, 2014 Autumn, Sussex

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

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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

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Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, La Mailleraye-sur-Seine, Nonancourt, Upper Normandy

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