We rose at the crack of dawn (ish) and left Ile d’Oleron at 9am for an appointment with the Royan ferry at 11am. Well not an appointment actually….you just turn up, pay them 47 euros and they cart you over…
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Baguette Bacon Butty Blowout
Tagged with: concorde, Cordouan Lighthouse, cycling, france, gironde, Hourtin Port, Mavis, medoc, motorhome, photography
Posted in - France, Aquitaine, Autumn 2015, Lac d'Hourtin
Posted in - France, Aquitaine, Autumn 2015, Lac d'Hourtin
Chicken Teriyaki. On the Barbecue.
The Ile d’Oleron is a seafoody and viney chunk of land attached to mainland France by a long bridge or viaduc, a little below La Rochelle on the Atlantic coast. We arrived here on Thursday after a short hop down…
Tagged with: Chassiron, chicken teriyaki, cycling, france, Ile d'Oleron, lighthouse, Mavis, motorhome, photography, Poitou Charentes, St Denis d'Oleron, tempura prawns
Posted in Autumn 2015, Ile D'Oleron, Poitou Charentes
Posted in Autumn 2015, Ile D'Oleron, Poitou Charentes
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
Geoffrey the Handsome
To add more detail to our journey here, the channel crossing bit of the trip to France wasn’t quite as straightforward as it might have been. We were parked right at the sharp end of the ferry, as previously noted,…
Tagged with: battery, Brittany Ferries, cycling, france, Henry II, Le Mans, loire, Mavis, Menhir, motorhome, photography, Plantagenets, Pont Romaine
Posted in Autumn 2015, Le Mans, Pays-de-la-Loire
Posted in Autumn 2015, Le Mans, Pays-de-la-Loire
Goodbye Jeremy
We left Portsmouth at 8 am on a showery morning and set sail for the land of baguettes, wine and other lovely eatables (as well as many non edible delights). Steaming out past Portsmouth naval dockyard, if you look carefully…
Tagged with: Caen, france, Jeremy, Le Mans, Mavis, motorhome, Portsmouth, Sarthe, Yvré-L'Évêque
Posted in - France, Autumn 2015, Caen, Le Mans, Lower Normandy, Pays-de-la-Loire
Posted in - France, Autumn 2015, Caen, Le Mans, Lower Normandy, Pays-de-la-Loire
Montigny, Le Cateau Cambresis, Arques and Home
We crossed Northern France in a series of short hops, together with Joy and Alan who by good luck happened to be crossing the channel the same day as us. First stop was a small aire in the hilltop wine…
Tagged with: Arques, Champagne, Chunnel, france, Le Cateau Cambresis, Mavis, motorhome, Mutigny, photography, Sushi
Posted in - France, Arques, Champagne-Ardenne, Le Cateau Cambresis, Mutigny, Nord-Pas de Calais
Posted in - France, Arques, Champagne-Ardenne, Le Cateau Cambresis, Mutigny, Nord-Pas de Calais
Port Chantecoq….Lac du Der
After Pont du Mousson we headed west and parked in an aire at Port Chantecoq, next to a wild flower meadow. Over the dam in the background is the huge man-made Lake called Lac du Der. The lake is in…
Tagged with: border terriers, boules, Champagne, Colin, cycling, egret, france, lac du der, motorhome, Petanque, photography, port chantecoq, tern
Posted in - France, Champagne-Ardenne, May/June 2015, Port Chantecoq
Posted in - France, Champagne-Ardenne, May/June 2015, Port Chantecoq
Trier…Emperor Augustus and Karl Marx
On Wednedsay we drove 23 miles up-river to the roman town of Trier, said by some to be the oldest town in Germany. This is the view from the Konrad-Adenauer bridge, by the stellplatz. The motorhomes can just be seen…
Tagged with: augustus, concorde, emperor augustus, Germany, Karl Marx, Mavis, motorhome, photography, Romans, Trier
Posted in - Germany, Rheinland-Palatinate, Trier
Posted in - Germany, Rheinland-Palatinate, Trier
Kesten…Lecker Flammkuchen
On Sunday we moved further south along the Moselle. We had planned to stop at the Stellplatz at Kinheim but this was a bit full (bank holiday Sunday) so we moved up-river a few miles to Kesten, where there was…
Tagged with: Bernkastel, Colin, concorde, cycling, Germany, Kesten, Kues, Mavis, motorhome, Rhineland
Posted in - Germany, 2015 Spring, Kesten, Rheinland-Palatinate
Posted in - Germany, 2015 Spring, Kesten, Rheinland-Palatinate
Neef, Alf and Cochem
We drove 67 miles from Bacharach to Neef, on the Moselle. The entrance to the Stellplatz is off the K41 through the riverside Car Park. N 50.092294, E 7.137422.Thanks to Paul M on the outandaboutlive forum for this recommendation and…
Tagged with: Alf, Cochem, Colin, cycling, Germany, Mavis, motorhome, Neef, photography, Rhineland-Palatinate
Posted in - Germany, 2015 Spring, Neef, Rheinland-Palatinate
Posted in - Germany, 2015 Spring, Neef, Rheinland-Palatinate
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