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…
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Saint Louis
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
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
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
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