This is not our first visit to Burgos. We called in here before on one of our earlier return trips from Casa Libélula in Jalón. That was just a stop of a couple of hours; now we are here for…
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Bilbao to Burgos
Salamanca got us into Bilbao’s harbour at the appointed time of 08:00. Motor homes are loaded down on deck 3 along with trucks so we were amongst the first to be called to disembark. Mercifully that got us out and…
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Keyless Entry
This being a 34-hour crossing, we have two nights on board. Having left Portsmouth at 21:45 on Sunday, we are due to arrive in Bilbao at 08:00 on Tuesday. Relaxing a full day on board may be but it’s pretty…
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Ferry to Bilbao
This year’s late summer/early autumn trip is a complete experiment. We are somewhat used to Spain, having owned a house there in Jalón for four years, but we are completely unfamiliar with camping in Spain. The main reason we sold…
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Neufchâtel Revisited
Neufchâtel-en-Bray, that is. Many years ago we always used to enter and exit France through Calais. When we did so, our favourite stopping point, about 2½ hours away from Calais (when towing) became an absolutely brilliantly run campsite at Neufchâtel-en-Bray.…
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Around Cheverny
We are something like 40-year veterans of camping in France. Many years ago, our typical starting point would be to hit the French coast and travel down for a first major stop somewhere beside La Loire. It’s about one third…
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A Happy Place
Trying to work out where to stay on our return journey northwards is always a bit of a challenge. We’d stayed two nights at L’Hospitalet du Larzac which, though it was an OK campsite, was a night too long; there…
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Card-iac Arrests
Our trip began by starting in the Netherlands, landing at the Hook of Holland and travelling to Havelte further east. After 5 days we doubled back on ourselves and crossed through Belgium into France. Then we crossed the whole of…
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Election Day 1
This place is dead. Mind you, it is a Sunday. There’s apparently nothing in the village of L’Hospitalet du Larzac. The sole entertainment is the bar/restaurant on our campsite. I don’t believe there’s even a boulangerie. The proprietors here have…
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All in a Grand Causse
The Villemarin campsite is an aire naturelle and is excellent … on six days of the week. We’d arrived on Friday having travelled from Fanjeaux and set up. We have been here before so we were somewhat prepared. All was…
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