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…
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Heading for Provence
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
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
Cabo de Gata…Fellow Campers and Other Wild Life
We had a “Menu del Dia” at Antonio’s restaurant, a short cycle ride from the campsite, on Wednesday. Antonio is the guy on my right…his wife cooked the most amazing paella….worth travelling to the South of Spain for that alone.…
Tagged with: Andalusia, boar, border terriers, Cabo de gata, fox, Mavis, motorhome, photography, Spain
Posted in - Spain, 2013 Autumn, Andalucia, Cabo de Gata
Posted in - Spain, 2013 Autumn, Andalucia, Cabo de Gata
Cabo de Gata…Low flying flamingos
We are in Cabo de Gata, a national park in Southern Spain, chilling in temperatures of over 30 deg C most days. The campsite is about a mile from the village of Cabo de Gata, a short bike ride along…
Tagged with: Almeria, Andalusia, black winged stint, border terriers, Cabo de gata, Colin, Mavis, motorhome, photography, shoveller, Spain
Posted in - Spain, 2013 Autumn, Andalucia, Cabo de Gata
Posted in - Spain, 2013 Autumn, Andalucia, Cabo de Gata
Overnight in Oliva. The fish are safe.
Camping Rio-Mar, near Oliva, was a brief halt on the way to Cabo de Gata. It is a small and friendly site, and some high-level shoehorning was needed to fit Mavis in. We ate in the site restaurant, over ordered…
Tagged with: border terriers, camping rio-mar, cycling, fishing, Mavis, motorhome, oliva, photography, prawns
Posted in - Spain, 2013 Autumn, Oliva, Valencia
Posted in - Spain, 2013 Autumn, Oliva, Valencia
Peixet de Bou? Eels on toast anyone?
Heading South This is L’Ampolla, a small fishing village about 40 miles south-west of Barcelona, on the mediterranean coast, just above the river Ebro delta. L’Ampolla was of strategic importance in the Spanish civil war; this is a pillbox from…
Tagged with: border terriers, Cabo de gata, Colin, cycling, L'Ampolla, Mavis, motorhome, peixet de bou, perros, photography, spanish cicil war, torradas
Posted in - Spain, 2013 Autumn, Catalonia, L'Ampolla
Posted in - Spain, 2013 Autumn, Catalonia, L'Ampolla
101 Uses For a Lamp Post.
We have had poor wifi connections recently so the blog is a bit behind; we are currently in Spain. After Domme we visited the chateau of Castelnaud, a few miles west down the dordogne valley. It is a lovely castle,…
Tagged with: blog, Bonansa, border terriers, Colin, cycling, domme, france, Garonne, gironde, Mavis, Montfrejeau, motorhome, photography, toulouse
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Domme
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Domme
Colin’s thoughts on Domme.
(Colin: “Oh No! Not another Bastide town to walk round”). We parked at La Perpetuum, a campsite on the banks of the Dordogne about 2km from Domme, in the sunshine. Domme is an old fortified medieval town, or Bastide,…
Tagged with: bastide, border terriers, caves, Colin, cycling, domme, dordogne, france, gironde, grotte, grotte of dome, Mavis, motorhome, new jersey, photography
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Domme
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Domme
Early Modern Man and the Gouffre de Proumeyssac
We are in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, a little town in the Vezere valley, which has become the de facto prehistoric capital of the region. The town is built under dramatic overhanging limestone cliffs, undercut over the millennia by the flow of…
Tagged with: blog, border terriers, concorde, cro-magnon, early modern man, france, les eyzies, Mavis, motorhome, photography, vezere
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil
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