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[yodeli]

As a stadium warden I can't expect much of a day off if I'm staying at home. There's always someone who hasn't got his keys to open the gate.. etc...So if I want peace I have to escape my own house.

I have then looked for a place not too far, where I could have some quiet time, and came across the campsite "Le Mercier" in Calmont , around 45 kms away from my place (I'm next to Toulouse).
It is not a big campsite, but still have usual facilities, and even a small snack/restaurant place. 3 bungalows for renting, and the night with CC card is 13,70 at this period. Mind you I don't have the card and the lady decided to make me pay the same price.
As a matter of fact , the only moment they shut is....now, for a week.
When I said I had a motorhome, she said, oh OK then, just come in, park and plug in. My son should be around if anything is needed.
So here I am, on my own.... Entrance, then from my pitch the dump point right at the bottom, then campsite sign, and my pitch so you can see the pitch size. Edit: I have changed pitch , the one was on first was too shady

 

[yodeli]

I will try to take pics of the surroundings later!

 

[hilldweller]

Another solo FUNster. Inspiration for the rest.


PS..........

"I am warden". Now that might be the correct translation but in UK warden is usually associated with prisons. Or traffic warden. A nicer term is caretaker.

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[Viennese]

Well done Frankie - enjoy your peace and quiet!

XXX

 

[buttons]

Looks a really nice site well done and blue sky's too, what sort of daytime temperatures are you experiencing at this time of the year...

 

[yodeli]

Looks a really nice site well done and blue sky's too, what sort of daytime temperatures are you experiencing at this time of the year...

It is 21° in the shade... really warm in the sun!!! I'd say 25/26°

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[yodeli]

A nicer term is caretaker.

Will use this then! Ta for mentioning it

 

[buttons]

It is 21° in the shade... really warm in the sun!!! I'd say 25/26°

Now that is nice, hope JJ is taking note just how nice it can be sometimes staying on a nice site.....

 

[yodeli]

After a gentle 5 minutes walk to the centre of the village, I found a pharmacy, a café and a baker. Also bus station to Mazère is right in front of the café. Here are the prices of the lunch at the café. Open market every tuesday Café details Pharmacie is next to the café.... Boulangerie. When you have walked about 2 minutes from the campsite you find this sign. Note that in Nailloux is the big lake of "la Thésauque" where there is an aire , for 6 euros the night with dump and electric ... charging 2 hours I think, very good restaurant by the lake . The aire is not a vey green one, more a parking place like but open all year except July and August, they need room for the visitors cars.

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[Xabia]

First time I have seen a French motorhome with a 'GB' sign on it Frankie..

Mike

 

[Lot lover]

"I am warden". Now that might be the correct translation but in UK warden is usually associated with prisons. Or traffic warden. A nicer term is caretaker.

At a public school of my acquaintance "warden" = "headmaster" - so I can see the similarity to a prison.

 

[Nirvanauk]

Nice one, enjoy!

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[yodeli]

First time I have seen a French motorhome with a 'GB' sign on it Frankie..

Mike

I'm afraid I'm addicted to UK in general!

 

[Lot lover]

I'm afraid I'm addicted to UK in general!

Then why a GB sticker not UK?

 

[yodeli]

Then why a GB sticker not UK?

Unfortunately in most French mind/memories of English courses UK doesn't mean anything.
GB is more known. It is also Grande Bretagne. United Kingdom is only in English language

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[Ven]

Looks like a nice site, thanks for sharing x

 

[gus-lopez]

Unfortunately in most French mind/memories of English courses UK doesn't mean anything.
GB is more known. It is also Grande Bretagne. United Kingdom is only in English language

You are quite right & I have the problem here occasionally when they want to put my nationality down as " Reino Unido" .Sorry I'm either British or English as UK isn't a nationality. Very hard for them to understand.

 

[moulin 87]

We're on our way to Ascou further up the N20 nearer Andorra.....coming back from Spain....

I thought the UK was Royaume-Uni or something similar...

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[yodeli]

We're on our way to Ascou further up the N20 nearer Andorra.....coming back from Spain....

I thought the UK was Royaume-Uni or something similar...

Yessss, Royaume Uni, so RU is not UK ... people who know nothing about english language can't get it. A bit like W (if it's what it is for Wales) ...they would never think about Wales: Pays De Galle PDG . While GB can be also translated Grande Bretagne.
Quite a few countries are easy to guess. P portugal ; F France; I Italy; BUT D Germany (Deutchland), E España , S Switzerland...

 

[moulin 87]

Yessss, Royaume Uni, so RU is not UK ... people who know nothing about english language can't get it. A bit like W (if it's what it is for Wales) ...they would never think about Wales: Pays De Galle PDG . While GB can be also translated Grande Bretagne.
Quite a few countries are easy to guess. P portugal ; F France; I Italy; BUT D Germany (Deutchland), E España , S Switzerland...

If only the French would put the words in the correct order and forget about gender life would be so much easier...Kingdom United

Have your traveller friends moved away, on the road from Montauban to Toulouse there were many camped on every spare piece of land!!

 

[Minxy]

The French language makes me giggle ... for example when I did my French night classes we were doing 'that', which is "cet, cette, ces" depending on gender and whether the item being referred to is singular/plural - one of the examples was "that elephant" which according to the normal 'rules' (I believe) should have been "c'elephant" as you usually drop the 'e' from 'ce' and put in an apostrophe instead ... however with this one it makes it sound funny so for whatever reason it's "cet elephant" instead ...

But the one that always makes me smile is 'moins cher' as in 'less expensive' ... no word for cheaper!!! Gotta love the French!

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[Hymie]

It is 21° in the shade... really warm in the sun!!! I'd say 25/26°[/

Glad you're getting a break Frankie, can you send some of that weather our way please.


We came over the 30th and there hasn't been a single dry day so far, it was freezing here yesterday and then turned to rain yet again. :-(


Haven't been able to get the bikes off the rack yet.


Hymie ]

 

[Lot lover]

United Kingdom is only in English language

True, in French it would be RU (Royaume Uni) a bit too close to ROmania for most of us.

 

[gus-lopez]

If only the French would put the words in the correct order and forget about gender life would be so much easier...Kingdom United

!

Either way it isn't.

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[chaser]

After a gentle 5 minutes walk to the centre of the village, I found a pharmacy, a café and a baker. Also bus station to Mazère is right in front of the café. Here are the prices of the lunch at the café.View attachment 131230 Open market every tuesdayView attachment 131231 Café detailsView attachment 131234 Pharmacie is next to the café.... View attachment 131235 Boulangerie. When you have walked about 2 minutes from the campsite you find this sign. Note that in Nailloux is the big lake of "la Thésauque" where there is an aire , for 6 euros the night with dump and electric ... charging 2 hours I think, very good restaurant by the lake . The aire is not a vey green one, more a parking place like but open all year except July and August, they need room for the visitors cars.
View attachment 131236

Don't these photos of a normal French village set you off ready to go

 

[canopus]

Yessss, Royaume Uni, so RU is not UK ... people who know nothing about english language can't get it. A bit like W (if it's what it is for Wales) ...they would never think about Wales: Pays De Galle PDG . While GB can be also translated Grande Bretagne.
Quite a few countries are easy to guess. P portugal ; F France; I Italy; BUT D Germany (Deutchland), E España , S Switzerland...

Wales is CYM Frankie = Cymru means Wales in Welsh apparently

 

[yodeli]

The French language makes me giggle ... for example when I did my French night classes we were doing 'that', which is "cet, cette, ces" depending on gender and whether the item being referred to is singular/plural - one of the examples was "that elephant" which according to the normal 'rules' (I believe) should have been "c'elephant" as you usually drop the 'e' from 'ce' and put in an apostrophe instead ... however with this one it makes it sound funny so for whatever reason it's "cet elephant" instead ...

But the one that always makes me smile is 'moins cher' as in 'less expensive' ... no word for cheaper!!! Gotta love the French!

Well we all struggle for something with foreign languages!
What about roof, moon , loo and ...flood blood....etc..?
What about sword, pronounced sord... No rule, nothing to explain why this and not that!
While , ce in front of elephant, with a dropped "e" can't tell you the gender. Cet instead gives you the clue, it is not cette so it's male/masculine. The point is you have to learn the rule. When I can't find a proper explanation/rule (after having asked a few friends + Oxford Dictionnary), then I learn it as it is ...full point. I don't know if you use this expression , but in French it's called learning by heart. No rule, so learn it as it is, for ever.

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[yodeli]

Wales is CYM Frankie = Cymru means Wales in Welsh apparently

Just recalled that S is not Switzerland . Switzerland is C.H. Confédération Helvétique!

 

[moulin 87]

Well we all struggle for something with foreign languages!
What about roof, moon , loo and ...flood blood....etc..?
What about sword, pronounced sord... No rule, nothing to explain why this and not that!
While , ce in front of elephant, with a dropped "e" can't tell you the gender. Cet instead gives you the clue, it is not cette so it's male/masculine. The point is you have to learn the rule. When I can't find a proper explanation/rule (after having asked a few friends + Oxford Dictionnary), then I learn it as it is ...full point. I don't know if you use this expression , but in French it's called learning by heart. No rule, so learn it as it is, for ever.

Learning by heart is the same meaning in English,

 

[Minxy]

Just recalled that S is not Switzerland . Switzerland is C.H. Confédération Helvétique!

... and Croatia is HR ... taken from 'Hrvatska' which apparently means 'Croats'.

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