Our last day - home tomorrow - train booked for 9.50 French time. Not something to look forward to. Our last night was planned to be spent in Guines which is near enough to Calais to leave us with a short drive to the tunne of about 20 minutesl. Our drive to Guines from our overnight stop at Troyes was fairly unintresting. But then I guess going home is always a pain. When you are on holiday there are some things you miss - a bath will be welcome and our usual bed. But somehow at this point we would both be happy to turn around and for the the holiday to go on forever. It is always sad to leave French soil and head home knowing that we wont be going away again for at ... read more

We woke early to a dewy colder morning and ate breakfast. The mountains certainly made the mornings colder and it took longer in the day to warm up. We set off for the small town centre of Challes les Eaux where we planned to catch the bus into Chambery. We are getting used to using public transport now and find it quite useful to get from A to B. The bus arrived and we were very lucky as we only had to pay 1 euro each to travel on the bus. Apparently it was mobility week and the public transport company of Chambery wanted to take motorcars off the road and were encouraging residents to pay 1 euro for a weekly ticket to use the buses. This must have been the best value for bus travel ... read more

Our first job of the day was to pay up before moving on. The office should have been open at 8 but it appeared the receptionists had arrived on time but decided to do something else and disappeared until 8.30. Whilst waiting I picked up todays bread and tomorrows croissants from the small shop on site. We had decided to move on early and head for Camping St Victoire near to Aix en Provence. The journey was pleasant and Mount Victoire a limestone ridge which extends 18 kilometers between the Bouche du Rhone and the Var departments and dominates the landscape at 3317 feet . It was much painted by Cezanne who lived locally at Aix. The campsite was small and tidy with excellent reception. We were charged 14 euros per night but with a surcharge ... read more

I always love Fridays. It’s the last day of the week normally at work and I have the weekends to look forward to. And a long weekend every week at that. Today started with a Labrador dog sniffing round our plot and thinking of depositing a present along the way. He wouldn’t move and kept sniffing round our electric hook up cables. In the end we accidently moved the cables and they hit him where it hurt and he took off without leaving us something to remove. We had moved to Cassis a little further along the coast. The plot was a reasonable 80 square metres and the sun was shining. Our plot was half in the sun and half in the shade which is quite a good arrangement. If it gets too hot at least ... read more

Getting used to getting up early. With the hour difference between here and home we find ourselves waking early, eating breakfast early and moving on early in the day. We had been reading a lot about over wintering in Spain or Portugal but with working that isn’t a possibility at the moment. Perhaps in 2014 when I get my state pension. We wonder what it would be like staying in the same place. After few days we get wanderlust and want to move on and see pastures new. Would you get fed up of the same sites, the same people, the same scenery or would it be a blessing to be in one place, pitch up and stay? I guess it would be nice for a while to get to know people and make friends something ... read more