After an early(ish) walk along the cycle track we set off for La Mailleraye sur Seine, a delightful aire on the south bank of the Seine, between Rouen and Le Havre. Pont de Brotonne, over the Seine This is the…
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La Mailleraye sur Seine. Tigers?
Tagged with: border terriers, cycling, la mailleraye sur seine, mailleraye, Mavis, motorhome
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, La Mailleraye-sur-Seine, Upper Normandy
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, La Mailleraye-sur-Seine, Upper Normandy
Neufchatel…Two Hens in a Hole
On Sunday we drove to Neufchatel en bray, a small town about 30 km SE of Dieppe. We stayed at Camping Ste Claire, a well kept and friendly site, popular with migrating Brits. 10 yards from the site entrance is…
Tagged with: border terriers, Colin, cycles, cycling, Mavis, motorhome, neufchael en Bray, voie verte
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Neufchâtel-en-Bray, Upper Normandy
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Neufchâtel-en-Bray, Upper Normandy
Guided Tour of the New Mavis
Kate has requested some pics of the inside of the new Mavis, so here is a guided tour. This is the lounge with Keith and Jane, our friends from Dalston, who have joined us at Neufchâtal en Bray. The toast…
Posted in 2013 Spring
Les Galets de La Molliere. Pebbles, not cakes.
Nous somme in the Somme. After a quiet crossing of the channel….embark at 8, full English breakfast, token trawl of the not very duty free shop, drive off at 11am…we headed South and spent the first night in Les Galets…
On the Road Again
We have traded Mavis 1 in for Mavis 2! The early hours of Sunday morning were spent camping on the doorstep of Southdown Motorhomes in Portsmouth; Monday was spent learning about our new motorhome and transferring 4 years or so’s…
Honfleur. In the footsteps of Henri Vth
Friday November 23rd. We are at the Aire in Honfleur; Henry V spent some time here in 1415, (not at the Aire…… he was besieging the city) en route to Agincourt, but we were still made welcome and had a…
Posted in 2013 Spring
Château Chante L’Oiseau
The new part for our essuie-glaces was delayed, so we diverted to a French Passion to the South of Bordeaux…..one of the vinyards where you can park up amongst the vines for free, as long as you taste some of…
Posted in 2013 Spring
Bordeaux….Les Girondins
We set off from Capbreton, aiming to stay at an aire on the Gironde, but diverted to Camping Beau Soleil in Bordeaux when the windscreens wipers (essuie-glaces as I now know them to be) packed in, and we needed a…
Tagged with: Beau Soleil, Bordeaux, charlotte corday, Corday, Garonne, Marat, place de la victoire, Robespierre
Posted in 2012 Autumn
Posted in 2012 Autumn
Capbreton
Saturday 17th November. We set off early (ish) from the Hendaye aire and had breakfast and a walk on this cliff top about 5 miles up the road. It is a leisurely drive of about 30 miles then, through Biarritz,…
Francia
Friday 16th November. We drove from Navarete via Pamplona, to Hendaye Plage, a small French coastal town just over the border from Spain. It was another stunning journey, through gorges lined with golden trees. We had lunch near this wood,…
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