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Europe » France » Languedoc-Roussillon » Collioure August 13th 2018

ADIOS España... en effet, aujourd'hui nous repasserons la frontière afin de retourner en France et continuer notre périple qui est encore loin d'être fini... Le temps est toujours au beau fixe... Il faut alors profiter de la mer un maximum... Nous longerons donc la Méditerranée jusqu'à hauteur de Cassis... puis ce sera Adios la mer... malheureusement car il nous faudra rentrer dans les terres pour retrouver notre maison un jour... Nous passerons une première nuit à Saint-Marie-la-Mer, à ne pas confondre avec Les Saintes Maries.... Un camping bruyant pour cette nuit mais ce doit être dans tous les campings de France puisque Foot oblige... c'est la finale... Et la nuit continuera bruyante puisqu'un bon orage sévira, apportant beaucoup d'eau... A ce moment là on est heureux de ne pas se trouver sous une tente... car d'autres ... read more
encore un peu d'Espagne...
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les plaisirs de l'eau

Europe » France » Languedoc-Roussillon » Carcassonne July 23rd 2018

After parking on the descent of the Col de Bisanne with the truck, I was then able to actually park on the climb of the Col de Madeleine. This wasn’t easy as I was late to the party, in terms of Tour parking, as some of these motorhomers get to a named climb well in advance, but my ace is the truck. Where these big lumps of plastic need a bit of space, I just need a car parking space so long as it’s got grass/dirt to peg into. But, this being said, I can’t be too picky, otherwise I’ll end up without a place, so opposite a set of road works, there was a dirt lay-by that was long, but just wide enough for my truck. The downside was the angle I was parked at, ... read more
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Europe » France » Languedoc-Roussillon » Carcassonne July 8th 2018

Over a week has past on this Pyrenees trip, and so far we’ve spent two days in the Pyrenees, and have now split from the rest of the group. Mark was one of the guys with me on the first Morocco trip, and he come across some guys on Facebook organising a trip to the Pyrenees. When he suggested it, I was all up for it, as it was timed well, and I had nothing planned for June. On previous trips I'd done a ton of research of routes and places, but as this wasn't my trip I naively assumed I could just follow along and enjoy. Day one was an easy one for me, as Dover is just down the road, where as the rest were driving down from Doncaster. At around 1, everyone began ... read more
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Europe » France » Languedoc-Roussillon » Carcassonne February 14th 2018

Here we are, the last blog of a pretty amazing one month trip...and now, I'm only 3 months late on blogging! We start the day very early in Barcelona and drove north to the little city of Figueres. Here, Dali left his Museum while still alive. He designed the place and offered it the to city and the people of the world. You can qualify Dali with a lot of words, mad could be one of them, genius obviously another one. The place is just stunning and we spent a full morning here. Dali was later buried here too. It's a long day and Figueres itself doesn't have much to offer as a small city, so we had a fast lunch and drove North to France. We could have stop on the way, but today is ... read more
Cathars castle...
It's still winter time!
When I told these guys you are too late....last invasion was centuries ago...I received some solid smiles on the way back!

Europe » France » Languedoc-Roussillon » Nîmes November 8th 2017

With my stay in Bordeaux over, it was time for another long drive on Tuesday. The drive to Nimes was longer than it needed to be because I took a lengthy detour north from Toulouse. When I visited France back in 2005, I read about a new bridge that had opened a few months earlier, the Viaduc de Millau. It is the tallest bridge in the world and I had wanted to see it, but it was well out of my way on that trip. With my Bordeaux diversion on this trip, it became feasible. After leaving the motorway north of Toulouse, the going slowed down and I didn’t reach the bridge until 4pm. The bridge is part of another motorway and I hoped there would be somewhere I could stop to take a photo or ... read more
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The Viaduc de Millau casts a long shadow

Europe » France » Languedoc-Roussillon » Beziers October 5th 2017

This morning Benny and I got a taxi into town to visit the Cathedral of Saint-Nazaire. We were dropped off beside the Cathedral, in the Place de la Revolutione which had a lovely fountain and café. Inside was a huge organ and an amazing ceiling. There was a mass underway so we sat down to listen to it for about 15 minutes whilst we looked around the interior from our seats. After quietly leaving, we walked around the outside of the Cathedral, around the Cloistures courtyard and through a pretty garden. The Cathedral sits on a hill and from the top you have views to the south towards the Fonseranne Staircase and the aqueduct that the Canal du Midi goes over before Beziers. As it was 12pm and everything shuts, we sat down at an outdoor ... read more
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Europe » France » Languedoc-Roussillon » Portiragnes October 4th 2017

We were moored through town so I took advantage of this and dashed into the village boulangerie early to buy a big baguette and some croissants to have with apricot jam for breakfast. As we were very low on our battery and water, we decided to leave Villeneuve-les-Beziers and go straight through the village of Portiragnes on to the le Boat base at Port Cassafieres, where we could plug into power and fill up the water tank. Along the way, we saw the VNF (French waterway body) staff mowing the banks of the canal with a big digger that has a mower on the end. Overall, apart from a few bottles and bags, the canals have been very clean. Several times we saw VNF vans and staff throwing anchors in the canal to catch fallen tree ... read more
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Europe » France » Languedoc-Roussillon » Beziers October 3rd 2017

Our plan was to go down in the afternoon session of the Fonserannes Staircase of locks, rather than the 8am – 9:30am session, because there had been several boats in front of us when we arrived last night. When we were first up, as we were moving the boat to where you queue at 8:30, we saw that the lock was open and one boat was in there already so we decided to go straight in. The boats ahead of us were halfway down and there were at least 3 lock keepers so they must be able to manage several basins of boats at once, rather than having one set get through all before starting the next as you have to when there is only 1 lock keeper. The whole process of going down 7 basins, ... read more
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Europe » France » Languedoc-Roussillon » Beziers October 2nd 2017

Overnight there was quite heavy rain but it eased off by the time we got up, although low cloud was still covering the hilltops. We managed to unmoor the boat and set off without getting wet and continued cruising along the canal. Although it is wet and grey, it was supposed to be 23 degrees, with it 16 at that point. We continued on from our overnight stop just east of Argeliers, through into Capestang. We moored over lunch and went for a walk into the village and into the cathedral there with beautiful stained glass windows. Along the way towards Beziers, we saw the French canal management people grubbing out the bases and roots of condemned plane trees. The trees that have been affected by disease are marked and cut down and the roots dug ... read more
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Europe » France » Languedoc-Roussillon » Beziers October 1st 2017

We left Homps this morning and spent a long time at the first lock waiting for our turn so we only made it into Argens-Minervois just before lunchtime. As the next lock wouldn’t open for a while, we stopped and had a walk around the town, before returning to the boat for lunch. After 2pm, we set off again and passed through the towns of Roubia, Paraza, Ventenac-en-Minervois and le Somail. Just past le Somail, the canal splits into 2, with one branch leading towards Navaronne and another continuing as the Canal du Midi. We continued on, past the village of Argeliers, and moored for the night with vineyards on both sides of the canal.... read more
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