France 🇫🇷 2023 taking in Rugby World Cup in Nice
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Wednesday 27th September 2023
Just like yesterday we pulled away from the Camping Carpark just before 8.30am. The Sat nav decided to take us the long way today and we drove down some single track roads. Sarah was not happy. Stopped for coffee then later to get fuel and we eventually arrived at...
Tuesday 26th September 2024
Moving on again today, we were up and off just before 8.30am. Fairly straightforward drive to our next destination which is Saint Andre de l’Eure a small village near Evreux. We stopped once for coffee and arrived around 20 past 12. We had some luck on the way as we...
Monday 25th September 2023
Packed up after breakfast and left the camping carpark site just after 8.30am. Had a long fairly flat drive through open countryside. We noticed huge fields of corn have been left to rot in many of the fields we passed.
This is because French corn farmers are being...
Saturday 23rd September 2023
We’ve got quite a big drive ahead of us so we were up and at it, leaving the site at 8am. More lovely scenery to take in, the vineyards of the Côtes du Rhône, plus rivers, gorges and mountains. Stopped for coffee and a break around 10.15 then again to fill up with...
Friday 22nd September 2023
It rained through the night and was still raining in the morning. We packed up, paid for our pitch and left the campsite at 9am. Had to drive up steep mountain passes with sharp bends and switchbacks till we reached the valley below. Drove along the bottom of the...
Wednesday 20th September 2023
Del and I were up around 7.30, so after breakfast we started packing up the van. The kids have to be out by 10am but they packed and cleaned the villa and were ready to check out by 9.30. We all went over to The Coffee Lab again for coffee and pastries before the...
Thursday 14th September 2023
Left the site around 9am and set off to drive towards our campsite on the outskirts of Nice. Part of the journey took us up a steep road with hairpin turns up the side of a mountain and down again! We passed many cyclists taking on the climb so it’s obviously a local...
Tuesday 12th September 2023
Moving day today, we left Avignon around 8.45am and instantly hit traffic queues trying to get out of the town. Only delayed by about 20 minutes then open roads and mountain ranges in the distance. Stopped at a supermarket and petrol station and filled up on food and...
Sunday 10th September 2023
We are moving on today and left the site at 8.30am. To begin with the roads were clear and the weather was cool. We climbed steeply out of the Tarn Gorge and later went through 2 tunnels cut into the mountains. We also had a steep road down into another valley with...
Friday 8th September 2023
We left the site around 9am and have a 3 hour plus journey to our next stop, Millau, in the Tarn Gorge. We stopped once for coffee, legs stretch and a coffee , and arrived at our new site around 12.30. We climbed some big steep hills on the way and were treated to far...
Wednesday 6th September 2023
Still stifling hot, we packed up the van after breakfast and dumped the grey waste off at the service point. Left Baynac around 9.45am and headed for our next site, in a place called Souillac. It’s only about an hour up the road and Del found a big supermarket on...
Saturday 2nd September 2023
We had a massive thunder and lightning storm in the night that woke us both up! We were up just after 7am and we left the site at 8.15 and headed to the Dordogne, and to a campsite at Beynac et Cazenac. It was a long drive for Del, we stopped a couple of times and...
Wednesday 30th August 2023
It rained in the night and it was still wet as we packed up to leave. Left Nantes just after 8.30 to drive to Chatelaillon Plage, which is on the coast just south of La Rochelle. Unfortunately the Sat nav took us on a toll road but luckily the “bip and go” worked...
Monday 28th August 2023
We left the Villandry site at around 9am, stopping off to buy a fresh baguette from the bakery on the high street. We left in rain but it soon cleared and we had sunny blue skies as we travelled to Nantes. Stopped for a coffee and leg stretch and arrived in Nantes around...
Saturday, 26th August 2023
Today we are heading to Villandry, where there is a chateau and gardens right next to a Camping Carpark Aire. Del had planned a route via a supermarket and petrol station so we stocked up on provisions and fuel. We arrived at Villandry around 12.15, found a space and...
We left home on Wednesday morning 23/08/23 heading to the Canterbury park and ride, before our morning crossing the next day on Le Shuttle.
Our first stop was the CCP at Formerie for one night (Thursday , 24/08/23).It is a small quiet site with 6 pitches. Clean and tidy.
On Friday, 25/08/23 we...
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