Almost ready to leave
29 апреля 2024 г., Англия ⋅ 🌬 14 °C
Final packing - think we are ready now.
We are off!
29 апреля 2024 г., Англия ⋅ 🌬 14 °C
Hurrah!
Brief visit to Salisbury
29 апреля 2024 г., Англия ⋅ 🌬 14 °C
The cathedral was shut by the time we got here so we had to walk across the water meadows instead. Now eating in Cote.
Boarding the ferry
29 апреля 2024 г., Англия ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Bit of a wait to board but we’re now properly on our way.
Cherbourg
30 апреля 2024 г., Франция ⋅ ☀️ 8 °C
Leaving the ferry.
Mont Saint-Michel
30 апреля 2024 г., Франция ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Busy, busy, busy…
Lunch
30 апреля 2024 г., Франция ⋅ 🌬 17 °C
ПутешественникAre those anchovies on your pizza…I’ve been trying to find some in the UK for bloody months!!!!!!
First campsite
30 апреля 2024 г., Франция ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Slightly stressful getting here tbh… our first choice campsite was shut when we got there so we had to drive a little further. This one is nicer though. The sun is shining and we are right by theЧитать далее
Breakfast
1 мая 2024 г., Франция ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
Pont de Saint-Nazaire
1 мая 2024 г., Франция ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
ПутешественникWe’ve driven our camper over that bridge! Well I made Mike do it 🫣😂
Lunch and toilet break
1 мая 2024 г., Франция ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Wet today so we are driving south a bit. It is a holiday in France today so nothing, I mean nothing, is open. Luckily we made sandwiches before we left. We have been looking for an aire for the lastЧитать далее
Cold
1 мая 2024 г., Франция ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
We are camping near Noirmoutier and it has got quite cold this evening.
Walk around Noirmoutier
2 мая 2024 г., Франция ⋅ 🌬 14 °C
Loop walk around Noirmoutier followed by a lunch of galettes and cider, then a brief stop off at Lidl on the way back. We haven’t been able to find peanut butter anywhere so far - we want it for ourЧитать далее
Île de Ré
3 мая 2024 г., Франция ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
We’re at the Camping Municipal de Saint Martin de Ré (on the Île de Ré obv.). Most expensive campsite so far and worst facilities unfortunately but good location. Omelette and couscous for tea!Читать далее
Muddy
4 мая 2024 г., Франция ⋅ 🌬 14 °C
Heavy rain overnight and our pitch has turned into a mud bath. The comments about this campsite on the Search for Sites app did say this might happen.
Luckily, Sara found these boards discardedЧитать далее
Hope the extra mattress will help. Shame about the mud bath outside the van :( [Nicky]
Île de Rain (and La Rochelle)
4 мая 2024 г., Франция ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
We got the bus into La Rochelle and back. No point in cycling today. It has pissed down all day. Nice lunch of tuna and fried potatoes, followed by a trip round the Musée Le Bunker de La RochelleЧитать далее
ПутешественникHere in Worcestershire, today feels like the first day in [enters very long timespan] it has not been relentlessly showery. Blue skies! Full-on sun! Warmth! It feels like summer has belatedly and abruptly arrived; hopefully you catch some too. (probably because I bought a winter sweater yesterday)
Walk around Les Portes-en-Ré
5 мая 2024 г., Франция ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Raining again this morning so we decided against cycling. Instead, we drove to Les Portes-en-Ré and did a 10k walk around the coast. Just managed to sneak into Les Huitres do Trousse Chemise withinЧитать далее
Camping Du Vieux Château
6 мая 2024 г., Франция ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
We are in Rauzan, south of Saint-Emilion, vaguely heading to Contis Plage on the coast south of Arcachon, an area we visited several times when we were much younger (younger than today).Читать далее
Washing day
9 мая 2024 г., Франция ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Beach
9 мая 2024 г., Франция ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Beautiful day today so we made sandwiches and spent a couple of hours on the beach. We walked thru the forest to get to a completely deserted part of the beach south of Saint-Girons plage. Lovely.
Morning walk
10 мая 2024 г., Франция ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
One of us was up with the fishermen, the runners, the early-bird surfers and the metal detectorists on the beach this morning!
Camping Le Saillet at Lestelle-Bétharram
10 мая 2024 г., Франция ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
We're just getting to the foothills of the Pyrenees, staying at a nice quiet campsite at Lestelle-Bétharram right next to the river (well it would be quiet if the local yoof would stop riding aroundЧитать далее
Lunch with a view
11 мая 2024 г., Франция ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Near the top of the Col de Aspin.
Lots of cyclists coming past. I feel quite jealous.
ПутешественникBut it's unlikely that most of those cyclists biked the length of the UK. Which you did (goes to look up pictures) very nearly a decade ago: https://www.flickr.com/photos/silversprite/albu…
Bagnères-de-Luchon
11 мая 2024 г., Франция ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
We're at a very quiet campsite in Bagnères-de-Luchon, annoyingly just out of reach of any bars. It was a bit of a last minute decision to come here because our original choice of campsite inЧитать далее
Vallée du Lys
12 мая 2024 г., Франция ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
We were up early today... well, we had left the campsite by 10.30!
We drove up to the Vallée du Lys and spent of couple of hours doing a circular walk taking in a couple of big waterfalls. The walkЧитать далее