Moved on today a little further along North Wales. Not a long drive. Up the few miles to the coast then followed it along via the Menai Straits past Anglesey and down what I always refer to as the Pig’s Ear of Wales, the Lynn Peninsula. Can’t be specific as to where we are as really we are just somewhere surrounded by fields and quite lovely views, including to the sea about 2 miles away. This is a CL, Gwyn Tawel and we are nicely set up with fully hooked up water again. We decided to try attaching the awning and after only a couple of wrong moves managed quite well. We were told it takes 10 minutes and maybe it took us that plus an hour but now we know what we are doing will ... read more

Going to be two days rolled into one otherwise I will be behind myself before I’ve really set off. So, on Monday 21st, the caravan was persuaded to leave the drive and advance up our narrow road with the aid of the trusty auto motormover. The car reversed down the road and the two met harmoniously in the middle. Only blocked the road for 3 minutes but the man waiting in his Maserati was impatient. I did Not apologize. And we were off. Up the M6 and then the M56, all nice and easy and then some of the more interesting narrow lanes of North Wales, but none too testing, to our campsite, in farmland just above Colwyn Bay. Plas Farm, a very pleasant site, nicely kept and we are on a fully serviced pitch as ... read more

As had been forecast it rained in the night but happily it had cleared when we woke. We have been exceptionally lucky with our weather all month. When it got too hot at 35 degrees in the Camargue we moved a little further north and had some cooling rain, but nearly always at night so never a problem and never much. Perfect really. We had decided a walk on the beach was the order of the day as we have not seen much sea this trip. When we were in the Camargue it was too hot to walk on the sand. So I picked a spot on the map and we headed out, to Wissant. The overnight rain might have cleared but we discovered it had left everything shrouded in sea style mist. This was the ... read more

23/6/25 Driving Day heading slowly north. Though it was a driving day it wasn’t too long a drive as we had inserted the Brantome, previous stop, into the originally planned itinerary so it reduced the miles to travel to next stop. A pleasant drive through lots and lots of agricultural land, fields stretching for miles in all directions and full of sunflowers and potatoes and of course golden grain. Harvesting has already started and we saw lots of farmers cutting their crops. We bypassed Poitiers where a massive amusement park Futuroscope is located. We saw some of that as we drove by but were not tempted to stop. Campsite for the night was Camping du Lac de Saint-Cyr at Beaumont Saint-Cyr. Sunday, a big leisure lake and a gloriously sunny day. The turn into the campsite ... read more

We were quite surprised really to find that we hadn’t been to Brantome before as it is such an obvious place to visit, well on the tourist trail. We have stayed not far away, a little further north near Nontron, at Chateau le Verdoyer a couple of times in our very early motorhoming days and remember a lovely visit to Nontron with sister Rosemary and husband Barry when we all met up at the campsite so have very happy memories of the area. I’m including a tiny photo I found of them there as it makes me happy to see it. Saturday is market day in Brantome and the market is enormous. We had no real need of fresh food but a French market is always a delight to wander around so that is what we ... read more