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)…
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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
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
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
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,…
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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
Lawrie and Cheryl
We are in Le Bugue…..X marks the spot. We set off from Bergerac following the Dordogne, lunched at the aire in Lalinde, then moved on to stay at Les Trois Caupains campsite in Le Bugue. Le Bugue is a little…
Tagged with: Bara-Bahau, border terriers, cave bears, caves, Colin, cycling, france, Garonne, gironde, Le Bugue, Mavis, michigan, motorhome, perigord noir, perigord pourpre, photography, vezere
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Le Bugue
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Le Bugue
Andernos-les-Bains via Cap Ferret
First stop Cap Ferret after leaving La Huga, and a walk on the beach between the remnants of the Atlantic Wall. We moved on to Camping La Fontaine Vieille, at Andernos-les-Bains Our Pitch in the Woods Andernos is an old…
Tagged with: andernos le bains, border terriers, Colin, cycling, france, Mavis, motorhome
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Andernos-les-Bains, Aquitaine
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Andernos-les-Bains, Aquitaine
Lucien and Other Weird Local Fauna
I cycled in to town for the days grub….French bread is superb but does need to be bought fresh each day. As well as the usual baguette I bought a ‘viking’ loaf…dark, almost black, malt and rye flour we thought…delicious.…
Tagged with: blog, border terriers, Colin, cycling, france, gironde, lac lacanau, lucien, Mavis, motorhome, photography, swimming
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Lac Lacanau
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Lac Lacanau
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