We have left Andorra la Vella heading north in to France via Ax-les-Thermes and Foix to Toulouse. We stopped over night outside Toulouse before we continued our trip. We passed by Montauban, Agen, Villeneuve-sur-Lot again and reached Bergerac on a beautiful day.
Traditional barges on the Dordogne River.
One of the old town’s half-timbered buildings.
Help yourself!
To visit Barcelona and titled “Vacance en France” is not exactly correct, as everybody knows Barcelona is in Spain. This was a spontaneous idea after we left Cap d’Adge to visit another place and we made the decision to heading south in to Spain. Anyway this is only a 3 hour drive and we camped in El Masnou, just north of Barcelona. Very convenient for us as a short walk from the campsite is a train station which where the trains running every 20 minutes or so to the City. Perfect.
Back on the El Masnou Campsite preparing evening supper.
Sláinte!
Rocamadour, with the monastic buildings in the LOT department, Occitanie. It is in the Parc Naturel Régional des Causses du Quercy, well worth the visit. Very Popular by Tourists but with only a population of 600. We have spend a couple of days in this beautiful Village. We had a great time well worth the visit.
44.7994° N, 1.6179° E
A long name for a small but cheerfully Campsite. This site is in walking distance of the beautiful Village of Rocamadour. I’m not surprised when everyone says, go to l’Hospitalet for the best views of the village in its entirety.
The Campsite is directly on the main street of l’Hospitalet and includes a Hotel, free WIFI and a swimming pool.
The french way of life, keep camping simple but take the fridge with you for a nice cold drink.
We have left the Nouvelle-Aquitaine are and drove to the region of Occitanie. This trip was via Sabres, Callen, Captieux, Casteljaloux and Villeneuve-sur-Lot to Rocamadour.
It was an extreme hot day and the temperature reach 41 degrees Celcius on afternoon. I was very pleased the air-con with the new condenser worked at it best.
Time was great on the “Lac”. Campsite is very good. Just as we like it. We have met a lot of nice people. This will be not our last stay.
Camping Le Lac, Mimizan
44.2197 N, 1.2274 W
Courant de Mimizan
Nice day on the Atlantic coast. Hot day but the sea was very cold.
We visited the local marked. Anybody fancy a new hair style?
Today cook the “Chef” himself. Someone has to do this work.
We left the beautiful Campside in Thury-Harcourt and continued our travel to south-west via Rennes, Bretagne and Nantes on the Loire River. Unfortunately the weather and forecast was not the best and instead to continue with our plan to travel to the Atlantic coast we headed south east towards to the sun.
We traveled Cholet, Maine-et-Loire and Bressuire and Poitiers in the Vienne department. The weather changed dramatically from heavy rain to beautiful sunshine. We decided to stop in Vivonne which is just south east of Poitiers and stay overnight on a Campsite. Our plan was to visit some friends next day which live in the Haute Vienne department and only a 2 hours drive away.
Camping des Trois Rivieres, Vivonne, Poitiers, Vienne
N 46.42499, E 0.26462
Some unfortunate french holiday maker had a problem with the electric on his ancient Caravan. I was more then happy to help him to fix it.
This year we decided to travel to France again. The original plan was to go somewhere else for a change. By taken the roof tent, the advantage is to go wherever we like and to change the routing on the last minute.
We headed overnight south to the Euro-tunnel in Folkestone to catch our pr-booked Train to Calais. After a view ours rest and a short sleep near Abbeville, Somme we continued via Le Havre and Caen and stopped over night at Thury-Harcourt in the Basse-Normandie region.
Camping Du Traspy, Thury Harcourt including free WIFI on the whole Campside beside the lake “Plan d’eau du Traspy. Beautiful place.
48.988518 N, 0.467728 W
For more then 2 years we have planned to sell our old but reliable ARB Simpson Roof tent and buy a new Maggiolina Airtop Roof Top Tent. We believe the Airtop fits our travel’s around Europe much better. We had great times with the Simpson roof tent. Of course the Airtop can be opened within 20 seconds and packed away within a minute. Which is very good. To open an close the Simpson it took me at least 15-20 minutes and was no fun to do it in the rain. Of course the Simpson could folded in half and this has give me some space on the roof rack for gear which I rather not have in the Car. This of course is now gone as the new tent use the whole length of the roof rack.
I had to re-arrange the layout in the Land cruiser to fit all the gear in. The good side on it is, some of the equipment which I have carried around for years and of course never have used has been thrown out and flung in to one of the dark corners in my Garage and probably never see the daylight again.
The tent fit perfectly on to my old roof rack. I’m still be able to slide the table under the rack.
There is plenty space in the tent. Although the height is restricted compares to the Simpson roof tent.
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