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    • TravelerFernweh - Südeuropa 2023
      Day 24

      Flamingos in der Camargue

      April 27, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

      Die Camargue ist eine riesige Sumpflandschaft, durchzogen von Kanälen und Lagunen, Dünen und Sandbänken.

      Mehr als interessant an der Camargue ist die Tierwelt. Es sollen über 400 verschiedene Vogelarten hier leben. Teilweise kommen sie aus Nordeuropa hier her um zu überwintern. Die Salzseen sind das von Flamingos beherrschte Reich. Sie finden hier ihre Nahrung insbesondere kleine Salzkrebse.Read more

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    • Cruising donkeysThe journey home
      Day 308

      The joys of live aboard overwintering

      January 26, 2020 in France ⋅ 🌧 12 °C

      Well the weather hasn’t been all bad we have had a very mixed bag. Yesterday was sunny and we took a ride to the beach for wombling as well as shopping for Sunday Roast ingredients and doing the washing. The last few days we have been working on various projects.
      John has been focusing on wiring up the various electronics. The radar, radio, compass and GPS were all previously on the Missen mast that is no more so needed to be mounted elsewhere and reconnected. Everything is now complete.
      My jobs were more domestic in nature. I made a big batch of chunky carrot and coriander soup, as it’s nice to have a warm lunch on those cold days and the French believe soup should should be smooth whereas I want to chew my food. Some more carrot cakes to help fatten John up so he doesn’t get so cold. I have also made a cover, by hand, (machine broke) for the new stern tabernacle folding table John is going to build. My DPNs finally arrived, for those of you who are not knitters DPNs are double pointed needles, so I am now knitting my first pair of socks 🧦. The first one is a bit pointy on the toe as I got the cast off instructions a bit confused 🤷‍♀️ but nailed it for the heel section so second sock should be perfect! I am also doing my first ever bit of cross stitch thanks to my birthday present from Michelle and Paul. Took a few stitches to appreciate the need to do all the / before coming back with the \ but it’s going well now and I love the nautical theme. At the moment I am feeling inspired to maybe make a cross stitch Take Five but this enthusiasm may well wear off. I also have some new blue chunky wool that I am looking for a project for, any suggestions anyone?      Read more

    • TravelerÜberwintern in Spanien
      Day 16

      Mit dem Velo bis ans Meer

      October 10, 2023 in France ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

      Plage de Piemonason
      Heute wollen wir das Meer sehen! Also satteln wir noch einmal unsere Fahrräder und machen uns auf den Weg zum 12 km entfernten Plage de Piemonason. Wieder geht es vorbei an rosaroten Salzbecken und Salzhügeln. Schön! Auch wenn uns der Gegenwind etwas zu schaffen macht.
      Am Plage angekommen, sehen wir dort dutzende Camper stehen. Ob die hier übernachten?
      Eigentlich ist es ja in Frankreich verboten wild zu campieren.
      Wir entscheiden uns auf dem Campingplatz noch 2 Nächte zu verlängern, da das Wetter weiterhin sehr angenehm ist und der Platz wirklich sehr schön.      Read more

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    • Cruising donkeysThe journey home
      Day 321

      Short update

      February 8, 2020 in France ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C

      Things are still progressing well with the various projects. John’s oil filters have arrived so he can finish the generator service but we are still waiting to receive the Perspex so he can repair the windscreen.
      I have finished my socks and started on John’s, the cross stitch crab is progressing well. Still haven’t started a project for the variegated blue wool but lots of time for that.
      We have made a few more wombling trips to the beach and actually walked right along the beach to the River mouth. There is so much timber there as well as obviously a lot of beached detritus, mostly plastic with a scary number of flip flops.
      Next week on Wednesday the main mast comes off! To do this we have to motor round to Port Napoleon where DMS will be removing and storing the mast until the transporters pick it up. We have already lubed all the bottle screws, the only unknown is the bolt through the tabernacle, this twists but at the moment we think the mast weight and Stays pressure prevent us removing it. This feels like real progress so now we need to sort out where the mast will go too in Northern France to wait for us. We are thinking either Rouen or Honfleur. We are also going to buy our canal cruising permit so we can benefit for the early purchase discount.      Read more

    • Cruising donkeysThe journey home
      Day 325

      Take Five without masts

      February 12, 2020 in France ⋅ ☀️ 9 °C

      Well that’s it the boat is now ready, it is mastless. The de-stepping was quick and painless and DMS are dumping the old missen mast for us. They are now removing the spars and wrapping it all ready for collection and transport to Rouen. No rush we don’t anticipate getting there before June.
      The morning of potentially our final open water sojourn until the English channel was not great. We awoke to find a catamaran sinking alongside the quay where it appeared to have been towed by the local lifeboat crew. We don’t know what happened but it was definitely entertaining and I now know that my aerobic instructor is a fireman. Thankfully after about three hours of pumping three pumps both hills were again afloat and it has been moved to an official mooring for now. The pretty pink picture shows storm Ciara on its way to Guernsey.      Read more

    • Cruising donkeysThe journey home
      Day 285

      Salin de Giraud

      January 3, 2020 in France ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C

      Well we had a beautiful day, Sun was shining almost no wind and nothing else to do so we decided to revisit Salin de Giraud. As this was a planned excursion we remembered the iPad for photos as well as some snacks and water.
      We rode up along the east bank of the Rhône to Barcarin, where the ferry is spotting a bird of prey on the way, it might have been a buzzard. We arrived just in time to hop straight on and across we went, the river was definitely in a much calmer and more relaxed state than the first time, but we’ve had no real rain for a few weeks so that makes sense. Once across we headed back down towards the sea not quite on the West bank of the river as the tow path there was a bit bumpy for our not mountain bikes but initially we were on a new cycle lane but this did disappear. On the way down we saw another bird of prey, and stopped at an artificially raised viewing platform to see the salt flats and salt mountain. The info boards told that this salt was used for the roads so wasn’t refined very much. Then onwards to the beach, this one also had a lifeguard station also only open for the two summer months. The beach was very long and apart from the lifeguard station the only features were the wooden teepees that visitors had built out of drift wood. There seemed to be a lot less rubbish perhaps this is because the prevailing wind carries the river rubbish east to Port St Louis’s beach. We stopped for a snack and to watch a family have fun extricating their people carrier from the sand, then back up to Salin for a hot chocolate. The cafe/bar/restaurant is a bit odd it is one big room with a really high ceiling a section that is the ‘restaurant’ a bar on one wall and random decor, photo on next post.John said it reminded him of a church hall or old fashioned community hall. Near the ferry we met a ram with enormous horns and saw two more birds of prey, maybe the same ones again who knows.      Read more

    • Cruising donkeysThe journey home
      Day 280

      More preparations

      December 29, 2019 in France ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C

      So we have had a couple of days of sun and only mild winds which has been very pleasant. Today we decided to finish of the work we had started on our secondhand Bimini and cover. We bought this in early spring this year from some friends in Levkas, they were getting a higher one, The problem we had was that as once the masts had been removed we would have had no shade for the outside steering position. We until now used the Missen boom and various stays to secure a shade cover. But with the frame now cut to size it looks like it will be perfect for keeping the sun off so now we just have to figure out how to keep the mozzies at bay. Would you believe they were out with us today looking for a lunchtime snack.Read more

    • Cruising donkeysThe journey home
      Day 259

      Port Saint Louis du Rhone

      December 8, 2019 in France ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C

      Well we have been in our winter marina for just over a week and feel we are getting to know the place quite well. While we have been here though two of the other visiting liveaboard boats have left, we think there is one other boat with full time residents and a few weekenders. The facilities (loos, showers and laundry) are clean dry and wonderfully warm, there is also a common room with TV and DVD that we can use. There is a supermarket nearby that sells John’s preferred GF bread and well stocked chandlery’s so John is mostly happy. He however a bit concerned about the temperatures, one morning this week we were showing only 2.5 degs on the external thermometer and that’s early December he’s not sure he will like January and February very much. Take a Five now looks a little different as we have removed the Missen mast, we aren’t thinking we will put it back as we haven’t used the Missen at all and without it we feel we have so much more deck space. Sadly there is no gym for me to use but I have found a boxercise type class that’s very energetic and hope to start running again soon, niggling Achilles injury just not healing, and am using common room for Pilates/yoga/body balance type workouts. We are planning to cycle to Arles when weather is cooperative for an overnight stay, it is about 35km if the signs are to be believed. And the buses to Martigues allow us to visit a large Bricolage (DIY) store, John is thinking about building a folding table around the Missen tabernacle?
      So far we have had at least two good days for each bad one but this coming week doesn’t look so good forecasted winds with gusts around 45km/hr every day except Wednesday which is good as Wednesday is market day.
      We try to do a longish ride every day and have ridden to the beach every few days and have started a little beach cleaning, just a carrier bag of plastic bottles each visit as well as collecting some of the more interesting finds that I will put on the photos to see if anyone can invent a story to link them together.      Read more

    • Iz malega v še manjše
      Day 10

      Popolno navdušenje - plaža, narava

      August 2, 2022 in France ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

      No ja, nad 10 km oddaljenosti od morja res nisem pokazala navdušenja, čeprav ima kemp zelo spedenano restavracijo (v ponudbi, med drugim, bikovo rebro s pečenim krompirčkom), imajo lep bazen, komfortne toaletne prostore in sva ena od redkih priviligiranih s senčno parcelo.

      Nikoli pa si nisem predstavljala, kako zgleda naravni habitat toliko ptic, ki jim še imena ne vem. Toliko jih še v živalskem vrtu ne vidiš, Impresivno. Pa nisem jaz nek ljubitelj ptic, ampak to res očara. Mokrišča segajo vse do morja, vmes so soline in kupi soli, ki od daleč zgledajo kot sipine. Res impresivno. Hvaležna za te poglede in to doživetje.

      Morje je hladnejše od dosedanjih jezer, ne pa premrzlo, da ne bi šel plavat. Parking je na obsežni utrjeni mivki in res bi bil nadstandard spati kar tam. Tako da ja, prvo razočaranje je mimo.

      Bo pa še Mitja kaj dodal.

      Ekola, dodajam: res je super. In čist drgač kot vse doslej. Da se mal važim: dobr sem skrekal prvih 10 dni. Upam, da bo tudi drugih deset tako finih 😜      Read more

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    • TravelerFrankreich, Spanien
      Day 6

      Marseille, der Süden der Camargue

      July 28, 2023 in France ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

      Der Tag beginnt mit einem Bad im kalten Mittelmeer. Nach einer halben Stunde fahren erreichen wir in die Nähe des Vieux Port, zum Hafen - das Zentrum von Marseille. Heute ist Fischmarkt. Wir steigen hinauf in das alte Viertel le Panier. Bunt bemalte Hauswände, auch das ein oder andere Kunstwerk, kuriose Geschäfte, Restaurants und Weinbars kann man besuchen. Nachmittags fahren eure ins die Camargue. Sie ist durch die wild lebenden Pferde bekannt, auch Reis wird hier angebaut.
      Bei Arles teilt sich die Rhone, ein Arm mündet bei Port Saint Louis du Rhone ins Mittelmeer. Wir fahren bis Landsend an einen Strand und genießen lesend die letzten Sonnenstrahlen. Zum Abendessen bereiten wir Spaghetti und einen Tomatensalat aus den lokalen gelbroten Fleischtomaten zu. Leider quälen uns die Schnaken, so dass wir in den Camper flüchten.      Read more

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