Tapp's Travels

[pmb_print_buttons] This year, we have agreed a policy of staying at campsites we haven’t visited before.  With three repeat sites already this trip, you would be forgiven for not recognising this plan!  However, we have another opportunity to hit new…

[pmb_print_buttons] The road to Camping Serpolin from Bressuire was narrow and untypically bumpy.  Not “speed-bumpy”, just very uneven.  We were expecting lots of stuff to have fallen out of cupboards and the milk in the fridge converted to butter.  While…

It transpires that we are camped less than 30 km from Oradour-sur-Glane.  The martyred village.  We’ve visited before, but it’s such a moving place, we want to go again. In the morning of 10 June 1944, almost exactly 80 years…

I selected our next campsite wirh great care to be close to Prayssac so we could meet with Angelique and Ingrid and see their new house.  A nice peaceful (English owned) site near Moncabrier.  After towing up the twisting roads…

But not yet!  We haven’t eaten at the Tête d’Ail in Roquecor yet.  Nor have we visited Montcuq!  The first was easily fixed.  Glenda was sure they would be open on Thursday.  Checking on their website – fermée, closed, shut,…

One day we went on tour.  First, the little village of Anthé, just down the road – but, to be fair, there really isn’t much there.  On to Tournon d’Argenais.  Another town built on the top of a hill.  This time…

We are really into short distance towing trips this year.  And the trip to the Côte de Fumel would have been one of the shortest on record if we had follwed the sat nav!  Did I really just say that???! …

It’s  Monday.  Time for a change of scenery.  Our pitch has been booked by some perishing Dutch (probably) campers!  Moulin de Campech has our name on it.  On the very edge of the largest man-made forest in Western Europe.  The…

Leaving Sunbilla was “downhill” all the way.  Decrease in altitude, increase in traffic, increase in the price of fuel … and toll roads!  Toll roads!  I said last time we drove into France from Spain on the ordinary roads (through…

Well, when we booked our hotel break, we had used Booking.com.  Having narrowly avoided reserving a hotel in Gijón, we managed to secure a good deal in Oviedo.  It transpired that the option to book B&B AND parking only worked…