Tag: Vehicle

Vacance en France – Bergerac

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!

Vacance en France – Rocamadour

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

Vacances en France – Aquitaine to Occitanie

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.

Vacances en France – Landes

We left Haute-Vienne and traveled toward the Atlantic coast. We have planned to stay overnight on the coast but as we left a bit late on the morning we stopped over in Bordeaux to travel next day further to Mimizan. We have visited this place a view years ago and we like it very much, so we mad the decision to spend a view days again in this beautiful spot.

Etang d’Aureilhan

Overnight stay in Village du Lac, Camping de Bordeaux. The campsite was packed, but still enough place for us.

44.8054 N, 0.5822 W

 

Maggiolina Airtop

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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We left Perpignan and travelled North-east to the Camargue. It is only a 2 hours drive and arrived in Aigues-Mortes which is between Montpelier and Arles in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon.

Camargue is very well known for their white wild horses and of course an opportunity for Diane to ride one of the horses. She had an enjoyable time despite the high air temperature.

We also had the chance to watch the local “Cowboys” round up the bulls, which was very interesting the way they work.

 

 

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We found a nice place to stop at Ste-Marie-Plage, just north of Perpignan with a lovely and clean sand beach. Also the camp side was great and first class. We had direct access to the beach and it took us only a minutes walk. Weather could be not better.

Stunning sunrise

Very clean beach

We had the swimming pool for our self. Hardly any people there.

Camp side between the trees and very quiet.

Replace wiper assembly

Over time, I noticed the the windscreen wipers were starting to become out of alignment; obviously this is through the age of the car (and possibly the British weather!)

Luckily I was able to purchase the whole assembly for a decent price, and it was not very difficult to remove the old one.

Whilst the assembly was removed, this gave me a good opportunity to thoroughly clean it out.

Only four bolts was needed to remove the wiper motor, and to connect it to the new assembly was no problem.