The scenery around Millau is quite spectacular with various rivers, most notably the Tarn, having cut precipitous gorges deep into the surrounding Jurassic limestone plateau. The resulting individual plateaux between the series of gorges are at an altitude of about…
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Beavering Away
We’ve stayed at Millau a couple of times before and always at the same campsite, Camping St. Lambert amongst trees beside a gentle bend in the river Dourbie. The Dourbie’s attraction for us is that it’s a good wildlife river,…
Posted in 2014 France
Me, Ow!
[You should get the joke in a minute.] We spent s splendidly peaceful night at our blissfully rural site Bruere-Allichamps. The morning dawned with as many clouds as we’d had the day before but, nonetheless, I decided to wander along…
Posted in 2013 Spain
The Road to Hell
A long time ago, the eminent Chris Rea wrote a song called The Road Hell. Today, we drove along it. I should back up a little. Our favoured route into France is this: down to Dover, ferry to Calais, 2-hour…
Posted in 2014 France
Guillaume Reviens
Guillaume is at his happiest when he’s in France but he was a bit of a grumpy guts having missed out last year due to yours truly deciding to forego foreign travel in order to get his cataract ripped out.…
Posted in 2014 France
Exbury Gardens
We tend to tune in to local BBC radio stations when we’re away in Guillaume, for weather forecasts, mainly. Whilst listening to BBC Radio Solent, we heard them banging on about what seems to be a minor historic event. and…
Posted in 2014 New Forest
Guillaume: Wildlife Hide
From about 7:00 AM until 12:30 PM today the rain was solid and frequently heavy. We hid in Guillaume until it abated, then headed to our favourite local pub, the Hare and Hounds in Sway, for another lunch. This is…
Posted in 2014 New Forest
Drenched Again
A mixture of sunshine and showers, some of which might be heavy, was forecast. We decided to put the coastal effect to the test and headed for Hengistbury Head, just south of Christchurch, where the sky did indeed look brighter.…
Posted in 2014 New Forest
Poodle Alaska
Meeting with friend Paul and his wife, Sue, a few days ago had introduced us to the fact that there is a branch of our favourite English food shop, Waitrose, in Lymington. Being only about 4 miles further than Brockenhurst…
Posted in 2014 New Forest
A Sigh of Relief
Now here’s something that doesn’t happen very often in the UK: all three days of a Bank Holiday weekend being sunny. At least the London Breeding Club will have had about the best introduction possible to life in a motorhome.…
Posted in 2014 New Forest
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