Yesterday we left Salbris mid morning and drove 130 miles east to Digoin, a small town about 80 miles to the north of Lyon. There is a good aire here, essentially a very large car park overlooking the Loire and…
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Whelkome to South Korean Cuisine.
We are at Camping de Sologne, 43 miles south of Orleans. This is a pleasant medium sized ACSI site on a lake in the small town of Salbris. ( GPS N 47.430214 E 2.054411 ) The site was recommended to…
Tagged with: Camping Sologne, france, motorhome, photography, Salbris
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, Centre, Salbris
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, Centre, Salbris
Charles the Bald.
As often happens we found this charming campsite by chance. We had planned to stay overnight on the aire at Pont de L’Arche but when we got here mid afternoon on the Wednesday before Easter the aire and adjacent car…
Tagged with: camp eure, cycling, france, Mavis, motorhome, photography, pont de l'arche
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, Pont de l'Arche, Upper Normandy
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, Pont de l'Arche, Upper Normandy
Lake District to Cake District
We set off from Cumbria at 6.30 pm on Tuesday and by 11am this morning I was buying the first Tartelette aux Pommes of the trip…Parfait. We woke up on the aire at Wissant (about 10 miles south of Calais)…
Tagged with: Aire, border terriers, Colin, france, Mavis, motorhome, photography, Wissant
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, Nord-Pas de Calais, Wissant
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, Nord-Pas de Calais, Wissant
Arles… I am in the naughty corner
We left Saintes Maries de la Mer and headed inland to Arles, driving a scenic route through the Camargue. The plan had been to stay at Camping Le City in Arles, handily close to the centre, but it was firmly…
Tagged with: amphitheatre, Arles, Bordeaux, cycling, dordogne, france, Mavis, medoc, motorhome, photography, van gogh
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, Arles, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, Arles, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Saint Louis
We spent a couple of days travelling down France, stopping at aires near Orleans and then in the Auvergne, then arrived at the medieval walled town of Aigues-Mortes, on the edge of the Camargue, in Provence. We camped in the…
Tagged with: Aigues-Mortes, blog, border terriers, Colin, cycling, france, Mavis, motorhome, photography, Provence, St Louis, Stes Maries
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, Aigues-Mortes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, Aigues-Mortes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Heading for Provence
First stop en route to Provence was Portsmouth, for a few minor jobs on Mavis. (No, that’s not Portsmouth above, I thought I’d start the blog with a Château picture) The dogs had breakfast in front of the dealers and…
Tagged with: border terriers, Channel tunnel, Colin, cycling, france, Mavis, motorhome, Neufchatel en Bray, Normandy, photography
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, Neufchâtel-en-Bray, Upper Normandy
Posted in - France, 2014 Spring, Neufchâtel-en-Bray, Upper Normandy
Vendôme….The Last Post, and Caption Competition.
We are on the aire at Honfleur, in a gale, two days away from the ferry back to Dover. So this is likely to be the last post of the trip. We have come via Vendôme, a lovely town on…
Tagged with: france, Mavis, motorhome, photography, rfc, rochambeau, vendome
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Centre, Vendôme
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Centre, Vendôme
Rocamadour
We drove North to the Dordogne, on Thursday. This is Rocamadour, an amazing village and church built in to the side of a limestone gorge in the Eastern Dordogne. We parked Mavis at the top of the gorge, close to…
Tagged with: border terriers, dordogne, france, Mavis, motorhome, photography, rocamadour
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Midi-Pyrénées, Rocamadour
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Midi-Pyrénées, Rocamadour
Andorra
We crossed the Spanish border with Andorra on Wednesday the 30th of October. Andorra is a tiny principality high in the Pyrenees. Luckily the police were looking the other way when we drove through….we weren’t stopped. Approaching the Pyrenees. Nia…
Tagged with: Andorra, ax les thermes, border terriers, france, Mavis, motorhome, photography
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Andorra, Ax-les-Thermes, Midi-Pyrénées
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Andorra, Ax-les-Thermes, Midi-Pyrénées
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