Westward Ho! to France

[nicholsong]

We, Geoff and Basia, left our new house in Myslowice, Poland at 0900 yesterday and covered the 400km to our regular 'Coaching Stop' in Bautzen, 50km into Germany. It is an easy run all along the A4 which is 2km from home and 1.5km from A4 to this Stellplatz, which is 4 dedicated places for MHs with electric, but loads of space in the CP and there is a service point. Free parking.

The drive was easy enough but as luck would have it on the first day of a 2-month trip we hadfirstly a call from the Electricity company which took Basia 20 mins to sort out about an overcharge and secondly from my Polish bank asking for proof of funds for money laundering purposes - why after 10 years, and they are asking for documents?, which I obviously do not carry in a MH. That one is still ongoing.

We decided to stay here another day because it is convenient and a nice medieval town.

 

[barryd]

Glad you finally got away Geoff. A well earned long break for you both.

I had no idea you were part of the Polish Breaking Bad scene though.

 

[nicholsong]

Glad you finally got away Geoff. A well earned long break for you both.

I had no idea you were part of the Polish Breaking Bad scene though.

Glad you finally got away Geoff. A well earned long break for you both.

I had no idea you were part of the Polish Breaking Bad scene though.

I had no idea what the 'Breaking Bad' reference meant, until I googled it.

I have not had cancer, have no family and I am not sure what classifies as amphetamines, I am still no wiser about the connection.

 

[Lenny HB]

Have a good trip Geoff.

 

[nicholsong]

[Posted this earlier on its own thread]


This is part of our 'Westward Ho! to France thread, but I felt the Breaking News! needed its own thread.

After 2 nights in Bautzen we travelled 110km to an Alpaca farm aire. We had only just parked up and had a snack lunch when.......

Just 10m in front of us a mother Alpaca started giving birth !!!!!

Basia got lots of photos, including one when the foal's mouth had just reached the ground, two legs still inside, and it was tonguing the grass, if not actually eating. A few minutes later, after 20 mins total, it dropped, and only 10-15 mins later it was up on wobbly legs.

A Motorhoming experience not to be found on campsites!

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[nicholsong]

We stayed a second night at the Alpaca farm because it was so relaxing and was therapeutic watching the newborn gamboling with its slightly older 'cousin'.

The family were preparing last evening for a party this evening, so because the aire was free we donated a bottle of Rioja as a thanks for our stay.

Yesterday I spent 2 hours looking for tonight’s pleasent stop somewhere close to the A4/E40 in the Gera-Jeda-Weimar area without success. Eventually we decided on a place 250km away, which had been further than we intended.

We set off this morning about 0930 and headed to a Lidl supermarket first to stock up for food until Tues 10th in case we cannot find restaurants open over this Ascension Day w/e.

We have now arrived in a little stellplatz in the village of Gerstungen. It has just 3 pitches, surrounded by a few attractive bushes and half-timbered houses, with a hotel restaurant (which we may use) at 100m'. Charge is €6 for parking(plus extra for electric, if one needs it). Payment is to a bank IBAN number, which I tried but only failed because the country came up as 'Invalid', despite trying 'Germany', because my Dutch bank translates my pages to English, and then 'Deutschland', but both were deemed invalid. So much for trying.

Although park4night only showed this stellplatz, the noticeboard shows two more in this village and another close by, some with more facilities like water and cassette dump, but since we do not need anything we are staying put. THOUGHT why cannot UK do similar! I presume the houses around us do not object to 3 MHs, mainly hidden by trees and bushes. Locals passing have given us a cheery 'Guten Tag'

Crossing Germany is proving very relaxing so far.

EDIT - A Rioja Crianza which we buy in Poland when available, cost us €3 (£2.50 at £/€ 1.20 I got a few weeks ago)

 

[barryd]

I had no idea what the 'Breaking Bad' reference meant, until I googled it.

I have not had cancer, have no family and I am not sure what classifies as amphetamines, I am still no wiser about the connection.

I should have guessed you wouldn't have seen it!! The story was about science teacher who became a huge drug dealer and of course a lot of "Money laundering" went on!

 

[nicholsong]

We left Gerstungen (post #6), heading for a campsite we used last year when the water pump failed, because Basia wanted to wash her hair. We were blocked by a road closure and needed a 15km detour.

Our parking here will cost €17 plus tax, which I assume includes the water, grey and black dump. On top of that there is €5 per person. OK Basia had a shower, but I do not want to do anything outside our own private home, so why do I have to pay for something I do not want?

I was going to clean after dinner, as usual when she cooks, and she persuaded me that I should use the campsite kitchen for washing the pans and plates., because we are paying for it. So I end up carrying a bucketful of these items to a public kitchen area, and back. At which point I am thinking this is more like 'camping' than MHoming, and it was the first, and probably the last, time I have done that since I bought the MH 16 years ago.

In my book a MH is for private 'homing' in, away from a house, not for camping in public.

Others will differ.

 

[barryd]

We left Gerstungen (post #6), heading for a campsite we used last year when the water pump failed, because Basia wanted to wash her hair. We were blocked by a road closure and needed a 15km detour.

Our parking here will cost €17 plus tax, which I assume includes the water, grey and black dump. On top of that there is €5 per person. OK Basia had a shower, but I do not want to do anything outside our own private home, so why do I have to pay for something I do not want?

I was going to clean after dinner, as usual when she cooks, and she persuaded me that I should use the campsite kitchen for washing the pans and plates., because we are paying for it. So I end up carrying a bucketful of these items to a public kitchen area, and back. At which point I am thinking this is more like 'camping' than MHoming, and it was the first, and probably the last, time I have done that since I bought the MH 16 years ago.

In my book a MH is for private 'homing' in, away from a house, not for camping in public.

Others will differ.

HAHAHAHA!!! I bet that broke your heart Geoff!! €27!! I bet there has been some grumbling tonight in your van!

Even worse! Doing the campsite walk of shame with a load of dishes!! Oh how the mighty have fallen!! Come on Geoff! You're gonna have to do better than this! Tell Basia from me its not on!!

 

[nicholsong]

HAHAHAHA!!! I bet that broke your heart Geoff!! €27!! I bet there has been some grumbling tonight in your van!

Even worse! Doing the campsite walk of shame with a load of dishes!! Oh how the mighty have fallen!! Come on Geoff! You're gonna have to do better than this! Tell Basia from me its not on!!

Reception is not open until 0800 tomorrow - could still do a runner, leaving envelope for what we used, of course.

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[barryd]

Reception is not open until 0800 tomorrow - could still do a runner, leaving envelope for what we used, of course.

Thats more like it!

Get on with the Campsite Dodging!

 

[nicholsong]

There was a service interruption, because the water pump failure I reported in post #8 was in fact a micro-switch failure on our kitchen tap, which I traced to a wire that had sheared of right at entry into the switch so, unlike the other thread on micro-switch wire failure, running recently, there was not
two bits of wire to join.

As our route was taking us close to Polch we decided to go to Niesmann Caravanning, who had sorted us out with a repair previously, without appointment, but being a holiday here on Monday we had to park up at Mayen to wait their opening on Tuesday. Unfortunately, the switch they had was the wrong size for the housing in the tap.

So, across the road to Niesmann&Bischoff. They also did not have the right switch - design must have changed in 23 years! A new tap was the only solution, which as you can imagine there was expensive + fitting - a short €300.

Anyway we were serviceable again, stayed Tuesday night, serviced the MH, plus LPG nearby and we were good to go.

Wed night was 'in a Shady Nook, by a Babbling Brook' - old Donald Peers song for those of you of older years.

Thur was a gentle 15km to parking by a Moselle lock, so barges and boats to watch.

Today is starting with some trepidation, because the odometer reads 66663, so afte 3 miles it will be reading the sign of many devils, and for Friday the 13th that is ominous. Wish us luck!

 

[nicholsong]

We survived the 'Sign of the Devil' and Friday 13th without incident. After a big shop en-route at Intermarche to stock up a very bare fridge, which had been waiting to be filled with FR Goodies, which it was at €167, including 17lts of wine, we arrived in Briey, where the parking area was under-described in P4N. It is indeed just a very large CP(300 spaces?), but it is below the old town, surrounded by attractive trees, a sm park area, adjacent to a small stream and an attractive resevoir/lake. All well laid-out and with two restaurants, a pizzeria and a boulangerie within 300m.

We found another 'shady nook by a babbling brook', as above, and established ourselves there for afternoon and evening, including eating a good prawn salad with a bottle of Muscadet Sur Lie.

The place decided us on staying another day and maybe more. I have no hesitation in recommending it as there is massive of space for MHs - one could even organise a rally here, provided all units were self-sufficient as there are no MH services

I forgot to mention that at our previous stop we had a Belgian MH neighbour that had writing on its rear that it was a 'Hybrid, based sarcastically on the fuel being a mix of 45% for the diesel and 55% for the tax. A nice one I thought.

 

[nicholsong]

Sorry, I am a bit tardy with posts on our progress, partly because at Mareuil-sur-Ay, we had the APP problem, see here

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Last evening we ran out of Gb, until we topped up.

Our 3 nights at Mareuil-sur-Ay we relaxing, although Boulangerie was shut Tues/Wed and restaurant c ould only offer cold assiette of meats and cheese in the evening.

We did however achieve a NEW FIRST as we have take the bicycles with us this year, and since Captain is a bit slimmer and fitter, we were able to start using them again. RESULT!, because apart from pleasure, we are now more independent for shopping and going to restaurants.

After 3 relaxing days we took the difficult decision to start the engine and drive again. We stopped at an easy aire for water, which was pretty enough, but not much there so pressed on to this nice village, Had a cold beer outside the minimarket.

Neighbour is a Funster 'TrickyDicky' he says but I have never seen his posts. He advertises his political party on his cap. Um?

 

[GAVLAD]

Does he look like Ronald the Donald who wears a MAGA hat by any chance?

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[nicholsong]

Does he look like Ronald the Donald who wears a MAGA hat by any chance?

No Comment, but he did tell us in detail about the place we said we were heading to and which we said we had already been to. He also said he only used the Aires book and never P4N in Europe.

Enough of that, it was at Esternay which is a nice little village, but only eating out was an Italian pizzeria, with other dishes, but we had v.g. pizza, which was more FR -style than Italian. Next morning we found a very good Boucherie/Charcuterie/Traiteur - highly recommended, and the adjacent boulangerie had really good Croissant Beurre, which we then went back for more to have this morning, because being full of butter, we knew would survive a night.

We were aiming for where we are now, but wanted a 1/2-way break, which we made on a P4N gravel spot on the bank of the Yonne.- not much there but good view and peaceful.

Today's aim was to get to Rogny les Sept Ecluses., the quiet spot for 4 MHs a bit away from the locks. En route we did a w/e shopping at an Intermarche, including a couple of ready-made dishes( Lapin and Boeuf tongue). We only buy ready meals in France and a special place on Gran Canaria, because both are up to Basia's standard of cooking.

We are now well-ensconced next to the canal, on the end pitch of 4, with our habitation door and table and chairs on shaded grass.

It has taken us a week since that delay with the repair at N&B to really get back into the way-of-life of MH touring in France - the easy driving, easy shopping for good food, no worries about Service Points and everyone locally being friendly to camping-caristes. For us it is a 1200km trip across Germany, but worth it. For those in Southern England, much easier but from the North and Scotland similar to us.

For those of you in trepidation of crossing to France, stay away - more space for us who really appreciate it

 

[nicholsong]

Another catch-up.

We spent Thur night at a remote spot by the Yonne river, having stocked up at a very good charcuterie in Esternay, Highly recommended.

The heat at over 30C is getting at us a bit.

Next stop; was 3 nights(Fri, Sat, Sun) at Rogny-les-sept-ecluses, a lovely spot on the Canal de Briare, with reminiscences of taking my boat through there on the way to Greece 38 years ago (1987) at the start of my first of 6 retirements.

There was a music festival on the Sat night, but we decided it was too hot to go.

After nearly two weeks in France we have failed to eat at a French restaurant, either because none were within walking distance, they did not open that evening or in this case were only serving drinks except on a Sat.

We often seek out farmhouses or vineyards, which we did on Mon night - a vineyard with parking under good shady trees, on a slope with a view across vines down to a small valley with a church spire among the trees. An idyllic spot to wake up at 0630 assisted by the cockerel in the pen next to us, which also had hens, ducks and geese. We did a wine tasting in the evening and bought a very nice white for €9. We were 3 MHs, the next one being a young couple from Luxembourg and for some reason I thought they might not be Luxemburgers, but foreigners working there. I was right - they are both South African: she another lawyer, corporate counsel, and he has his own company.

We have never previously been downstream on the Loire than Briare, but today got part-way to Orleans at Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire, where we are parked in a CP on the outskirts, but in sight of and 200m from L'Abbeye de Fleury, and fields on two sides. I suppose it is a town not a village, as it has two boulangeries, plus another excellent Boucherie/Charcuterie. It does have French restaurants open, but Basia has commented with these excellent food shops, and her cooking abilities, do we need to spend €43 pp plus wine for the set menu. After a couple of days here we may do that, but this evening is supper at home in our quiet spot.

After our quick 50km run here and doing the shopping, we had to sit in the square for a presson Leffe Blonde(in honour of barryd of this forum) and a glass of wine, which became two, while we watched the population go about their business, until they went home for lunch.

This is MHoming French style, with French food, wine and atmosphere.

[Notr for funflair - neighbour 40m away is a Morelo, possibly an Empire Palace, but unbadged, except for Morelo]

 

[funflair]

Another catch-up.

We spent Thur night at a remote spot by the Yonne river, having stocked up at a very good charcuterie in Esternay, Highly recommended.

The heat at over 30C is getting at us a bit.

Next stop; was 3 nights(Fri, Sat, Sun) at Rogny-les-sept-ecluses, a lovely spot on the Canal de Briare, with reminiscences of taking my boat through there on the way to Greece 38 years ago (1987) at the start of my first of 6 retirements.

There was a music festival on the Sat night, but we decided it was too hot to go.

After nearly two weeks in France we have failed to eat at a French restaurant, either because none were within walking distance, they did not open that evening or in this case were only serving drinks except on a Sat.

We often seek out farmhouses or vineyards, which we did on Mon night - a vineyard with parking under good shady trees, on a slope with a view across vines down to a small valley with a church spire among the trees. An idyllic spot to wake up at 0630 assisted by the cockerel in the pen next to us, which also had hens, ducks and geese. We did a wine tasting in the evening and bought a very nice white for €9. We were 3 MHs, the next one being a young couple from Luxembourg and for some reason I thought they might not be Luxemburgers, but foreigners working there. I was right - they are both South African: she another lawyer, corporate counsel, and he has his own company.

We have never previously been downstream on the Loire than Briare, but today got part-way to Orleans at Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire, where we are parked in a CP on the outskirts, but in sight of and 200m from L'Abbeye de Fleury, and fields on two sides. I suppose it is a town not a village, as it has two boulangeries, plus another excellent Boucherie/Charcuterie. It does have French restaurants open, but Basia has commented with these excellent food shops, and her cooking abilities, do we need to spend €43 pp plus wine for the set menu. After a couple of days here we may do that, but this evening is supper at home in our quiet spot.

After our quick 50km run here and doing the shopping, we had to sit in the square for a presson Leffe Blonde(in honour of barryd of this forum) and a glass of wine, which became two, while we watched the population go about their business, until they went home for lunch.

This is MHoming French style, with French food, wine and atmosphere.

[Notr for funflair - neighbour 40m away is a Morelo, possibly an Empire Palace, but unbadged, except for Morelo]

Not sure about the 06:30 wake up call Geoff and Basia but the rest sounds pretty good I like a Rioja Crianza as well so how long are you in France ? we won't be over till middle of August you might have drunk it all by then, re the Morelo ? anything up to Palace is on little Daily wheels with Liner and above on bigger truck wheels have fun.

 

[barryd]

Sounds good Geoff if a little warm. Remember elevation elevation elevation!

We also finally made it to France on Tuesday as you know I think and I had my first "proper" Leffe last night. Brie de Meaux was at that lovely temperature where its crawling off on its own. We are in the Vosges mountains. Couple of beers, jump in the lake.

Enjoy!

 

[nicholsong]

After our last post #17, on Tues 24th at Benoit-sur-Loire, we spent another 2 nights there with only the Morelo for company. I had not realised that Benoit is French for Benedict, but learnt that when visiting the Abbeye Fleury Museum and the Abbeye itself, which contains a casket with the remains of St. Benedict, founder of the Benedictine Monastries. The museum is very well presented and informative, so well worth a visit.

The next day we started to progress westwards with the intention of exploring further downstream on the Loire. We stopped away from the river at Mercilly-en-Villette, an aire on the edge of the village, which has a boulangerie and a Proxi mini-market. The aire has a good SP but also something I had not experienced before on an aire - AUTOMATIC TOILETS, both unisex and one also for handicapped. One enters, it automatically locks, everything is S/S, no seat, but paper dispenser is full, there is a washbasin with soap dispenser, auto water and hand-dryer. One then pushes a button to unlock and exit. The whole aire and facilities are FREE.

We stayed another day, so as to walk in the shady woods for an hour - too hot to cycle in the open.

I researched places to stay on the Loire downstream of Orleans and was disappointed as many comments were on road noise or adolescents, so we decided to head back East and upstream.

Today June 29th we were running short on LPG and this area has few stations showing on mylpg.eu, so we went about 11km west to a self-service Super U pump and all was good, plus a bit of top-up wine and food shopping. Most of our shopping has been at local shops, not supermarkets, but that is fine for us as we think the produce is superior, even if a bit dearer.

We are now at Sully-sur-Loire aire next to the Loire river, but had to park at the back without a river view and only the awning for shade. We spotted a UK MH on the front row, who turned out to be MHFun member 'stevecamper'? and they promised to let us know when they are leaving tomorrow, However, Basia saw a FR MH leaving from the spot next to the UK one, so we made a quick dash with chairs and the English cooperation to save the space. Despite having awning tethered and chairs and tables out, and while I was on the laptop writing this, we had repositioned in 5 minutes.

We now have river view, more wind, needed at 33C, shade from MH and shade from trees in the morning, so we will probably stay for the coming forecast heat of 38-39C - not looking forward to that!

How are you all doing in the heat?

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[Sue and Rick]

We are in a CCP mon village at Reuilly. Not a million miles from you. 34 deg forcast 37-38 in a day or two. Shade is needed. There is a little breeze here which helps. We are partly shaded but there are pitches totally under trees which we may have to move to.

 

[nicholsong]

From Sun 19th until today, Thur 3rd we just sat the heat of 37-39C at Sully-sur-Loire, not doing much except walk the 1km to town early to get croissant. The first walk on Monday did give us the surprise of a Market, which had not been listed where I had researched markets, so we bought some fruit and cheese there. One cheese truck was 25-30' long and had a huge array of cheeses.

The heat was very draining and we took several dowsings of water each day to keep cool, including one day when a farmer had set up an agricultural spray irrigation system which was sprinkling onto the river cycle path 200m from us. Unfortunately it was crawling along the field and was soon out of reach.

Yesterday was a bit easier because there was more breeze, and the forecast for Orleans airport was showing wind up to 25kts - gusting 35kts from 1600-1900, so I warned the French and Belgian MHs, who seemed to take little notice until it started then quickly wound in awnings. Cloud came and the temperature dropped from 37C at 1600 to 28C at 1900 - very welcome!

We woke at 0600 today to light rain and a temp of 17C. We decided to trundle the 9km back to the Fleury Abbaye village, for both a very good charcuterie to stock up tomorrow for Le Weekend, and also to cycle, which we have missed doing. The cycling took us to Germigny where there is a mosaic ceiling in the 9thC church with 130,00o tesserae.

The designated cycle route started along a path by the river, but soon joined the main road and with a headwind was not to our liking. Fortunately at Germingy there is a TO by the church and they provided us with a local map showing back lanes taking us back to St. Benoit, and bringing us into the square at 1200 right opposite the 'Leffe Blonde presson shop' (cafe) Very welcome it was even after only 15km cycling.

After the 4 days of heat, we feel we are back doing the sort of touring in France we love. We are in an empty CP on the edge of the village with fields on 2 sides and trees on a third. The boucherie/charcuterie, boulangerie and small s/market are 200m away as is the Abbaye. There is village life to watch from the cafe, and we are alone at present, but never had more than one other MH here. Temp is 27C with a good breeze.

ALL IS WELL

 

[nicholsong]

After shocking up at the charcuterie on Friday morning we set off to visit, but not necessarily stay, at Briare aire, which is just next to the end of the Canal du Briare where it goes across the 'Pont de Canal' aqueduct over the Loire river.

This was a memory indulgement for me because 37 years ago I took my sailing boat along that aqueduct on my way to Greece.

We decided to stay and to also eat out. Unfortunately we chose badly - the restaurant was near empty, the knives were serrated steak knives, not a good sign. Basia's Peche du Jour was OK, as was the 1/2 carafe, but my steak was so tough that I could not finish it. The meal gave a lie to my assertion that one cannot have bad food in France. But it was only €42

We are now at an aire in another small Loire village. We have only covered 65km between 5 places in the last week, but this is our last night in the Loire, because we are heading E. to pick up on the Burgoyne canal, which we have not done before.

The Loire is not my kind of river, because it is too wide, at least around here, has little shade at the banks and worst of all is unnavigable, so no traffic to watch. We prefer more intimate streams and canals with tree-lined spots and boats to watch.

 

[nicholsong]

Just to give a flavour of what we enjoy -

We are currently parked in what I can only describe as a local park for the village. It is a grass and tree area, about 50m wide and 250m long between the back of the main street houses and a small brook. At one end there are trees and picnic tables and a Petanque pitch. The parking is used by local people for dog walking and children playing. The only thing that identifies it as an aire is that there is a service point at one end.

We are parked under the willows by the stream and there are 3 other MHs, none within 30m. There are toilets, probably for locals not MHs. Up some steps one is into the square, where today Sat was a small market, the Poste, Mairie, Boulangerie and local cafe.

The atmosphere is so tranquil - local quiet park, stream and friendly people. We had a salad supper by our MH with hardly a sound.

I sometimes wonder whether most of the youth of today understand 'Tranquil'

 

[MichaelT]

I sometimes wonder whether most of the youth of today understand 'Tranquil'

They probably will when they are 80

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[scousebird]

Just to give a flavour of what we enjoy -

We are currently parked in what I can only describe as a local park for the village. It is a grass and tree area, about 50m wide and 250m long between the back of the main street houses and a small brook. At one end there are trees and picnic tables and a Petanque pitch. The parking is used by local people for dog walking and children playing. The only thing that identifies it as an aire is that there is a service point at one end.

We are parked under the willows by the stream and there are 3 other MHs, none within 30m. There are toilets, probably for locals not MHs. Up some steps one is into the square, where today Sat was a small market, the Poste, Mairie, Boulangerie and local cafe.

The atmosphere is so tranquil - local quiet park, stream and friendly people. We had a salad supper by our MH with hardly a sound.

I sometimes wonder whether most of the youth of today understand 'Tranquil'

Where is this? Sounds lovely.

 

[nicholsong]

Where is this? Sounds lovely.

Bonny-sur-Loire and very bonny it is. Surprisingly very few MHs - only 5 last night and well spread out from each other.

 

[dalspa]

Stayed there a few times, always very quiet. Much prefer it to the aire at Briare. If you are continuing westward along the Loire beyond Samaur there is a good free aire a couple of miles before Gennes on the south side of the river. It used to be a municipal site but for many years now has been an aire. From the road go down a ramp to the aire. Sometimes there are travellers down the far end of the site but they are no problem and some spend there time weaving baskets. They tap into the street light for electric! We always stay here when on the way to Ile de Re, and find the biking enjoyable in either direction from the aire, even though the initial bit is on the road.

 

[nicholsong]

Stayed there a few times, always very quiet. Much prefer it to the aire at Briare. If you are continuing westward along the Loire beyond Samaur there is a good free aire a couple of miles before Gennes on the south side of the river. It used to be a municipal site but for many years now has been an aire. From the road go down a ramp to the aire. Sometimes there are travellers down the far end of the site but they are no problem and some spend there time weaving baskets. They tap into the street light for electric! We always stay here when on the way to Ile de Re, and find the biking enjoyable in either direction from the aire, even though the initial bit is on the road.

We have now headed E. towards the Bourgogne and Nivernais Canals. Then into other parts of Burgundy.

 

[nicholsong]

Because our route to the Bourgogne Canal was taking us past the Morvan Natural Parc we decided to explore it a bit more.

We decided that, since aires are not common in this area we would stop at a Municipal Campsite. It is in a lovely setting and we chose to park alongside a small river at the edge. Although it could take 40-50 tents and caravans/MHs we and 2 caravans were the only visitors, despite the place being beautiful and the facilities excellent for only €15. Lady at reception blamed the weather, which is why we did not stay longer.

Today has not been successful. After an easy 33km drive to Avallon, we found the LPG machine out of order and the parking spot in the town not very pretty so we went on and are now in a village CP with 4 other MHs, which has a SP and a few shops nearby, so OK for another showery day. Tomorrow we will vist the centre for the Parc for more info and take the Morvan Parc visit from there.

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