With little sign of Summer arriving anytime soon in the UK, the desire to travel again was never far from the forefront of our minds. We had actually purposefully not booked ourselves up with social events in June & July, so we didn’t have to exactly persuade each other to go. As we need to…
Category: France
Off We Go…..Our Route through France
With our nervous dog as our co passenger we decided the best option was to take the tunnel across the water to France for this trip where she could stay in the motorhome with us. Our compromise being that we would take some short stretches of toll in France to get us around some major…
Our route Calais France to the Eastern Algarve in 3 days
When we left the U.K. on the 6th January it was a typical grey winter day, the blue skies of the south were calling though and like many others we saw no point in hanging around in France for more of the same. Purposely we got to the Euro tunnel well ahead of schedule, knowing…
The Last Dash
It’s been a tough decision to make but a few weeks ago we decided to end “chapter 1” of our trip earlier than planned and head back to the UK. Our original intention was to be away from the UK for a year, however several things have transpired in the meantime that have led us…
Family Reunion in Carnac
We consider ourselves very privileged to be able to travel like this, if there is one downside it’s that we have to go without seeing friends and family for long periods of time, therefore when we found out that Paul’s brother David, his wife Susie and our 2 beautiful nieces Ruby & Olivia had booked…
Further flavours of France
August 2016 Our next destination was les Sables d’Olonne which has a paid for aire (46.497288-1.775243) near to the centre at 15.4o euro per night it was more expensive than we’d been used to paying and actually although it had electric points (if you were lucky enough to get one) it didn’t have any views so…
Island Life – Ile D’Oleron
After a brief conflab we decided to head across the bridge from the mainland to Ile D’Oleron the largest of Frances islands other than Corsica. We headed near to the top of the island and parked on a free aire at La Bree Les Bains (46.00827 1.356998). It was the most picturesque parking spot but…
Searing temperatures in St George
11th – 14th August 2016 Ok, Ok I know we’re bragging about the weather again, but I’m sure you’ve never written a postcard from overseas and bragged that the weather is crap. When it is we just say it quietly or ignore it altogether, however if you read the blog avidly you will know we…
A visit to Cognac & we didn’t touch a drop
7th & 8th August 2016 Having arrived in Cognac on Sunday morning we were lucky to get the last parking place in the aire which is free to park on and very central (45.666733 0.07014). The sun was beating down so we headed out into town for a look around. As it was Sunday nothing…
A Sobering Reminder
6th August 2016 Free aire 2 euro for water  (GPS 45.934722 1.0275) Our next stop was at the truly moving village of Ordour Sur Glane, left exactly as it was after the whole population was massacred by SS troops during the 2nd world war. On 10 June 1944, the village in then Nazi occupied Fracne was destroyed, when…
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