The day we arrived at Llauro in the eastern Pyrenees was, we thought, pretty darn windy. That, it seems, was just the Tramontane flexing it muscles and warming up. For the last two days, the Tramontane has been up to…

At our continuing-to-be-practically-full ACSI campsite near Mèze, we had a recent interesting new arrival. A lone traveller pulled into the pitch behind us driving a Spanish registered McLouis brand motor van,. An apparent lady got out and started setting up.…

Now look, don’t get me wrong, I love birds, as those who know we would freely admit. yesterday morning, however, they were having a laugh. The first assault was mounted yesterday when a small bird, possibly one of our surrounding…

“It feels good to be on the road again,” muttered Francine as we drove out of Maussane-les-Alpilles. We’ve done something rather out of character for us on our nest stop and it’s proved quite interesting. We’ve returned to an area…

We had a lazy day putzing around Maussane, today. We began by putzing into town to do some shopping where we found a wonderful shop selling all manner of produce from Les Alpilles. I love the way the French are…

Now, here’s an object lesson in how to put an old, disused bauxite mine to good use – in the unlikely event that you happen to have a suitable old, disused bauxite mine lurking about, of course. As it happens,…

On to my main interest for wanting to be in this area at this time of year: the Peau de Meau. As an amateur odonatologist, the Peau de Meau is irresistible. It is a part of the larger area known…

Campsites can be entertaining places sometimes. Today we were treated to a couple of international entertainment acts. Act #1 was from Deutschland. Popular though they most certainly are with many punters, I am personally very disparaging about motor vans. There…

One instinctively knows when it’s time to move on. We’d had a good time at Millau, helped by an interesting riverside pitch and reasonable weather for orchid hunting but now it felt like time to move. We bad farewell to…

Today dawned brightly enough but soon turned largely grey. Anyone would think we were in the UK. The first task on our agenda was to take my limping steed to a French bicycle repair man. I loaded my bike on…