Saint-Montan, France Travel Journals & Blogs

Traveler Schöne Provence und Paris
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- Jun 5, 2023, 9:19am
- ⛅ 19 °C
- Altitude: 73 m
- France Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Saint-Montan Les Baraques 44.438333, 4.66544°26’18” N 4°39’54” E
Day 5
Schluchten der Ardèche
June 5, 2023 in France ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Am 5.6.23 ging es vormittags mit dem Bus in die berühmten Schluchten, die der Fluß Ardèche auf 32 km Länge in die Kalksandsteinfelsen gegraben hat. Ausgangspunkt war die Pont de Arc, eine Felsbrücke über die Ardèche.
Nächster Halt war der sogn. Balkon über der Autridge, ein toller Blick über die Ardèche. Viele Kanufahrer und Wildwasserfahrer sind hier unterwegs. Höhepunkt des Ausflugs waren für Gundi die Lavendelfelder, auch wenn der Lavendel noch nicht richtig blüht. Das ist Provence pur! In Viviers holte das Schiff uns ab und wir fuhren die Rhône weiter Richtung Avignon, wo wir nach dem Abendessen gegen 20 Uhr anlegten. Auf dem Place de l' Horloge stießen wir auf Avignon an!Read more
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Cruising donkeys The journey home
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- Jun 14, 2020, 1:54pm
- ☀️ 21 °C
- Altitude: 300 m
- France Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Saint-Montan 44.462895, 4.63522244°27’46” N 4°38’7” E
Day 448
Viviers and surrounds
June 14, 2020 in France ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Well today we decided to go walking, first a tour of the historic centre then up to La Joannade a statue on the hill next door, we started easy. Next challenge was finding the start of the trail to St Oustians chapel, doing OK, signs started off as a red and white stripe one on top of the other then became yellow scallops on a blue background then yellow and white stripe. Not sure why they changed as we did seem to be on the correct trail. After the chapel, which was unfortunately closed due to lack of maintenance, the signage went back to red and white and followed a stream bed up a valley to eventually emerge on a narrow tarmac road that led to a very large and new private plot of land and buildings. Still continuing up hill we were looking for Moune, passed a lavender field on the way. Not sure we ever found it but there was a sign redirecting us towards Baynes, still more up but we were now heading back towards the river, over the brow of the hill and into the small hamlet of pretty mostly renovated buildings. Next a random walk west through a lot of trees in what was definitely the wrong direction to start with but we eventually emerged, after going past bee hives, on a road near Hauterives. We passed the Roman Bridge and returned home.Read more
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France in July
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- Jul 24, 2019, 4:00pm
- ⛅ 37 °C
- Altitude: 111 m
- France Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Saint-Montan 44.440411, 4.62310844°26’25” N 4°37’23” E
Day 5
Saint Montan
July 24, 2019 in France ⋅ ⛅ 37 °C
Dieses mittelalterliche, gut erhaltene Dorf hat seinen ganz eigenen Charme. Nach der Besichtigung der renovierten Burg gab es Crêpes und ein kühles Bier. Spontanen Deutsch-Französisch Sprachkurse mir dem Wirtsehepaar halfen sowohl bei der Bestellung als auch bei der Gästebindung auf Deutsch.Read more
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Misadventures Of Wanda Wanda’s First Adventure
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- Oct 11, 2021
- ☀️ 13 °C
- Altitude: 978 ft
- France Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Larnas 44.447404, 4.59874944°26’51” N 4°35’55” E
Day 9
A night in Larnas
October 11, 2021 in France ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
This morning we got up early ready to explore the medieval city of Cremieu and from 6am the cars just kept on piling into the car park where we spent the night. Exiting Wanda we were greeted by a very excitable Frenchman who was telling us what was going on before lunchtime and that he had a camping car, but we didn’t really understand him except for the odd word so Ellie smiled and that worked and he drove off. We started in the town before heading to the old ramparts but almost all of the shops were closed except for the cafe’s and considering the cars that had blocked Wanda in and the traffic on the nearby road the town was dead. We climbed the steep stairway to the old ramparts and we were the only ones up there which was great for us to look around and take a few pictures.
We left Cremieu about 10:30am heading for Lyon which was an hour away and when we got there the place was heaving with traffic, we didn’t want to chance getting stuck down some side road or having a fender bender so we decided to drive straight through Lyon and onto the next destination. Rochmare which again was an ancient medieval city with a castle and ramparts but we wanted to see the huge 200ft suspension bridge.
It was only a 10 minutes walk from our parking spot and the bridge seems bigger in real life than in pictures and it was also really windy which made crossing it and the selfies even more fun.
From there we were looking for our camp spot in the walled city of Saint montaine and TomTom decided to take us right through the middle of town. It got tighter and tighter and we turned left to head up a pass a motorcyclist stopped us and said we wouldn’t do it in Wanda so we had to turn around and go back out.
We used park4night to look for an alternative tortoise spot and we found one on the edge of a field but when we reached it the track leading down looked a little to steep and if it did rain we could have been stuck there indefinitely so we skipped that. Then after all the messing around Ellie found us a camp sight a couple of miles away but when we got there it was to late to check in at 18:20hrs.
By now we were all tired and hungry and I was convinced I could get us to the original camp spot by going an alternate route so I replanned our route and away we went again.
30 mins later we had arrived at a little car park behind the town hall in a little village called larnas where they welcome motorhomes, we dumped our grey water and toilet and then filled our fresh water tanks before settling in for the night and watching the sunset.Read more
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