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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

We are camped at Villemarin, approximately half way between the towns of Marseillan and Mèze. Our French neighbour, spotting our bikes, asked if we’d done the circuit of the Basin de Thau, which, he said, was about 60 kms. Arghh!…

Mèze has many things going for it. Mèze has an excellent market twice a week, on Thursdays and Sundays. It does get a bit busy but then, in France, good markets always get a bit busy. They are something of…

Having determined to leave, the morning at Fanjeaux dawned blue. This, however, proved to be like a classic English false dawn in that it soon began to cloud over. We’d been invited for a coffee at the owners’ farm house…

We’ve done our usual thing and stayed a little too long at Fanjeaux. The 2024 late spring/early summer weather continues to be unsettled in France, including southern France, and we have been treated to a series of skies that would…