Tapp's Travels

At Matignon, we are very close to the coast.  The Emerald coast, stretching from Cancale to Cape Fréhel, it’s so named because of the turquoise-green waters hereabouts.  First stop, the Plage de Quatre Vaux.  I think that means beach of…

We’ve heard there’s a lot of French folk literally making money while the sun shines!  We are off to check out this scam.  It sounds too good to be true!  It probably is!  But first, we are back in La…

After the debacle with the circuitous route taken on our last transit, the navigating officer was far more alert.  We are heading for Brittany at last.  Camping Les Rives de Vilaine at Férel near La Roche-Bernard. The N249 by-passing Bressuire…

So, it’s time to leave Brantôme.   We are heading a bit further north to the other side of Poitiers, just short of Parthenay, to a place called Chalandray.  All reviews of the Camping du Bois de St. Hilaire say it’s…

I rather abruptly abandoned the story at Vallons-sur-Baise.  Now I’ll take it up again, but at Valence-sur-Baïse – the correct spelling!  In the valley of the Baïse, nicknamed the “happy valley”, the river flows a distinctly yellow colour. The Baïse…

A wild howling banshee screamed out over the otherwise peaceful town of Vic Fezensac.  What on earth?  Is it a Harry Potter display?  A low-flying helicopter display team overhead?  Ahhh!  It’s Wednesday.  The first Wednesday of the month.  Middle of…

Well, well!  We did get into France no problem!  I really don’t see what all the problems were about last year.  Same credit card.  Same payage lane, (I’m pretty sure).  Five seconds and we were through.  Well, maybe twenty!  Not…

That was where we were “yesterday”.  Up near(ish) to the snow! A quick swim in the pool as the local aerobatic team did a parallel fly-past at 10,000 m.  (But pilot number nine didn’t get the email!) Now it’s time…

Well, not exactly nowhere, but the road is certainly a slow one!  We have decided to get a bit more “close and personal” with the high ground to the south.  The Picos de Europa.  Covering some 500 km², the peaks…

Our campsite at Colombres is nestled just inside the border of Asturias.  One kilometre further east and we’d be back in Cantabria. The term “Asturias” is named after its ancient inhabitants, the Astures, primitive inhabitants of the banks of the…