This is a replacement post. I’ve had some technical difficulties getting the post in correct order on the menu. Hopefully, the text hasn’t changed! The beaches here are indeed superb. Even when there is almost no beach at high tide! …
16. CROZON PENINSULA.
Nearly fifty years ago, we visited the peninsula immediately to the south of Brest. The Crozon Peninsula. Glenda was bitten by an adder there. She has not-so happy memories of the area! However, we seem to remember the beaches were…
15. BIRTHDAY NUMBER TWO – STILL IN NORMANDY.
We have just heard that on 23 June, Chateaumeillant recorded a temperature of 43.3°C. The second highest temperature ever officially recorded in France! And Chateaumeillant is just 20 kms from Les Fruits de Passau, our campsite north of Montluçon! Good…
14. NORMANDY.
We have become addicted to Crémant de Bourgogne. Well, perhaps addicted is the wrong word, but we do like it. We managed to sink more than a couple during the holiday. Possibly several more than a couple! It was a…
13. SAINT-POINT.
We are heading more or less due east towards Saint-Point. Madamme sat-nav took us (correctly) to Pont-de-Vaux, then across the Saône. Simple enough, just one road really. Then she took us onto the road from Fleurville to Cluny. She did…
12. MÂCON
We were heading southward to a site a number of kilometres northeast of Mâcon and east of Pont-de-Vaux. Les Ripettes. Sounds fabulous, with huge pitches and good views. The trouble was that lots of other people – mainly Dutch –…
11. CHAGNY AND SURROUNDS.
The campsite in Chagny takes a bit of finding. First impressions of the town are of narrow one way streets and railway bridges. The one way streets seem to lead the wrong way and the bridges are interestingly narrow. The…
10. AUTUN
At the Camping les Deux Rivières, after we had got over our “little difficulty” with the fridge door, we settled down in a huge pitch on the bank of one of the two rivers after which the site is named.…
9. STILL AT CLAMECY!
There are lots of interesting places to visit near Clamecy. At Mailley-le-Chateau bas, there is a fountain, La Fontain du Loup. It’s a recent (1992) installation remembering the appearance of a ferocious wolf that terrorised the region between 1731 and…
8. CLAMECY.
When a huge campervan parked immediately in front of us, it was time to move on. We said our goodbyes to David and Victoria, the only two other native English speakers on site (albeit with a bit of an accent!)…