We left Spain a day earlier than planned, because of the forecast snow in the Pyrenees, and did a long (400 miles) run from Valencia Camper Park to Aire-sur-L’Adour, through the Somport tunnel. L’Aire sur L’Adour is a small town…
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Où est la plume de ma tante?
Tagged with: Aire, Aquitaine, border terriers, Eymet, Issigeac, Lot-et-Garonne, Mavis, Monteton, motorhome, Nerac, photography, plum blossom
Posted in 2016 Spring, Aire-sur-L'Adour, Aquitaine, Eymet
Posted in 2016 Spring, Aire-sur-L'Adour, Aquitaine, Eymet
Sword Beach to Hendaye Plage
On Tuesday we woke to a chilly 2 deg C in Ouistreham and after a brief but bracing walk on Sword beach, (one of the the D-day landing beaches, just by the aire) set off south. We landed at the…
Tagged with: Aire, france, futuroscope, hendaye plage, Mavis, motorhome, photography, Poitiers
Posted in 2016 Spring, Aquitaine, hendaye plage
Posted in 2016 Spring, Aquitaine, hendaye plage
A Night on the Thouet
Mavis started first time with her new battery and positively skipped down the Routes Nationale to an overnight stop at Montreuil-Bellay which is a historic little town on the Thouet, a tributary of the Loire. We passed Saumur, about 10…
Tagged with: Aire, france, Mavis, Montreuil Bellay, motorhome, thouet
Posted in - France, Autumn 2015, Montreuil-Bellay, Pays-de-la-Loire
Posted in - France, Autumn 2015, Montreuil-Bellay, Pays-de-la-Loire
Saint-Pourcain-sur-Sioule.
On Sunday we drove 200 miles up the A75 (mainly), across the Millau bridge, to arrive at the riverside aire in Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule The aire ( N 46.312146 E 3.296693) was surprisingly quiet for Easter. Our pitch overlooks the Sioule, a…
Tagged with: Aire, allier, Mavis, motorhome, osprey, Saint pourcain sur sioule
Posted in 2015 Spring, Auvergne, RouteNorththroughFrance, St Pourcain-sur-Sioule
Posted in 2015 Spring, Auvergne, RouteNorththroughFrance, St Pourcain-sur-Sioule
Spanish Speaking Sheepdogs
On Saturday we drove 159 miles across the border and up the A75 to an aire at the fortified medieval village of La Couvertoirade. It is a good spacious aire (N 43.910998 E 3.313492) which is €3 per night. This…
Tagged with: Aire, Conque, france, La Couvertoirade, motorhome, photography, sheepdogs, Templars
Posted in - France, 2015 Spring, Aveyron, La Couvertoirade
Posted in - France, 2015 Spring, Aveyron, La Couvertoirade
L’Estartit to Narbonne Plage
We are heading home to the UK; the next few posts may only be of interest to other boring old gaffers with motorhomes who like to ramble along slowly, and like to read about stopovers and routes through France. Yesterday…
Tagged with: Aire, cycling, france, Mavis, motorhome, Narbonne, Narbonne Page, route north, Spain
Posted in - France, - Spain, 2014 Autumn, Catalonia, L'Estartit, Languedoc-Roussillon, Narbonne Plage, RouteNorththroughFrance, Routes
Posted in - France, - Spain, 2014 Autumn, Catalonia, L'Estartit, Languedoc-Roussillon, Narbonne Plage, RouteNorththroughFrance, Routes
Sainte Maxime…Do Sharks Live Here?
May be better not to swim here. We moved on from Ramatuelle to Sainte Maxime which is a small town on the Gulf of St Tropez. We stayed at a pretty basic aire (N 43.317154, E6.630549) next to a roundabout…
Tagged with: Aire, border terriers, coypu, cycling, france, motorhome, photography, Provence, Sainte Maxime
Posted in - France, 2014 Autumn, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Sainte Maxime
Posted in - France, 2014 Autumn, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Sainte Maxime
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
In the Loire
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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