Tapp's Travels

Well, well, as Hans might say!  Almost time for our last destination.  Sarzeau in Brittany.  But before we leave, we really should visit our home town!  We’ve been here a week and not explored St Aignan.  It’s a very pretty,…

The trip northwards from the Lot valley was fairly uneventful.  Long, but uneventful.  No “Routes Barrées”.  No low bridges.  Just six hours driving.  There was one brief “moment” when a passing driver was waving frantically at us and pointing to…

Our time in the deep South is coming to an end.  But not quite! We had poor memories of Fumel.  Poor in two ways.  First, that the town was unimpressive from a visitor’s perspective.  And second, our memories are less…

The Duck Farm is open again.  Yee Haa!  They hadn’t closed, they were just taking a week’s holiday!  Sunday lunch, here we come!  We took Angelique and Ingrid with us.  They are too busy with their lovely new house to…

We might even get there now! OK, first we engage the sat nav.  The BMW system is rubbish.  Very unreliable.  She’s even programmed to say “I’m sorry, I must try harder!” when we start shouting at her and telling her…

Towards the end of our stay at La Brouquère,  we had to move to the other end of our terrace.  Someone else is coming.  They have booked “our” pitch.  So we move from plot 13 to 15 and get a…

We booked Sunday lunch at La Faléne Bleue, (the Blue Moth)… … a very posh restaurant at Lannepax about 10 kms south of camp.  I still find telephone calls in French a bit tricky – especially when there’s an answerphone…

Our new campsite (Camping la Brouquère) near Gondrin turned out to be a little gem!  Little, in that it comprises only 20 pitches.   Our “terrace” is almost 90 metres in length and is home to just three pitches.   That’s us…

Dax is a centre of thermal baths.  They advertise cures for all sorts of rheumatic conditions, but they seem to be protracted affairs lasting weeks and there’s a lot of hot mud involved.  While a swim in nice clear, warm…