Category Archives: France

Straight off the ferry at 8am with no time for coffee and no plan we headed South. Heading away from the Port the only idea was to avoid anything that looked like a big city. I needed to get used to driving on the right (?!) side of the road. Gurty gurgled along, happy forContinue reading “Brittany delights”

Stopping at a local Boulangerie for the our daily pain au chocolat we picked up a leaflet, that had our name all over it… So we headed off in the direction of to Erdeven, obviously taking our time as we had just over 2 weeks to get there – no rush then. Following the coastlineContinue reading “Bimble to Savage Fun”

We stayed for a week at Erdoven which gave me a chance to try out the Velo Verde (cycleways) while waiting for the ‘fun’ to begin. One night we stayed at the Municipal Aire, which was on the sand dunes, the rest we parked up by the beach to watch the world go by OverContinue reading “Greasy surfers and full moon stones magick”

After all our bimbling, we thought we should try for a mini city break and headed towards Pornic, via Billiers. Billiers was a lovely village on an estuary, where we parked up for one night due to no overnight parking allowed Arriving at Pornic, with the help of Park4night we stooped at a small plageContinue reading “Time for a city break”

After an extended beach break, we decided to head off to the countryside and try our first Workaway experience. We contacted a few in the area and had a reply from the lovely Lucy, her daughter and their menagerie. Looking at the map I realised we were still over 350km away. so we took aContinue reading “Dreamy Dordogne”

Bidding a fond farewell to the Dordogne as stormy rainclouds were gathering, it was time to follow the sun back to the coast via a cute little village called Capiteaux for 2 nights RnR by the river. We pitched up at a free Aire by the river which was a local youth hangout – firstContinue reading “Au revoir mon petit pois”

We ended up staying nearly a month in France and I learnt the following: My school girl french is as bad a I thought it was, but people were patient and always had a smile when you tried to say something, even if it was nothing to do with what you meant to ask. SavageContinue reading “Things I learnt in France”