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…
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Overnight in Oliva. The fish are safe.
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
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
Saint Emilion….Chateau Mouton Rothschild 1928 on Offer
This is the lovely campsite Yelloh! St Emilion, close to St Emilion. We arrived two days before the site closed for the autumn; enough time to explore the village and navigate the lake on the pedalo’s and kayaks that visitors…
Tagged with: border terriers, france, Mavis, megalithic church, motorhome, photography, saint emilion, tour de roi
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Saint Emilion
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Saint Emilion
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
Château Brézé……Troglodytes and Pigeon Holes
This is Chateau Breze, a 15th century castle built over a remarkable underground fortification and living area excavated from the living rock over a thousand years ago. The chateau is about 10 miles south-east of Saumur. We came here on…
Tagged with: blog, border terriers, Breze, castle, caves, chateau Breze, france, joinery, Mavis, motorhome, photography, troglodytes
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Breze, Pays-de-la-Loire
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Breze, Pays-de-la-Loire
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