Blogs from Limoges, Limousin, France, Europe - page 2

The municipal campsite at Pontgibaud near Clermont Ferrand was our best campsite yet. It really is a beautiful spot by the river (although we have had enough of rivers), within walking distance of the town and just €16 per night. Michelle bought new sunglasses in Clermont Ferrand and gave Terry her old ones, in punishment for losing his! A happy three nights there but we needed to be moving on. Thursday morning we were up and out by 10.55am. That is a record for us and beats the old one by 30 minutes! And so we arrived at Camping des Alouettes, Cognac la Foret, near Limoges by 2.30pm, at a lovely site recommended by our friends Linda and Dennis. Here, which until we arrived was 100% Dutch, everyone said hello and smiled. How strange! Up to ... read more

The sun seems to have vanished. Not been there at all today just hidden behind very heavy cloud and some rain. A pity, as we have been enjoying having it hanging around but weather forecast does predict an end to the gorgeous blue skies of the last few days. Today we start our slow return home, by heading northwards in stages, with first stop near Limoges. We drove cross-country across the pretty, pastoral, Midi-Pyrenees countryside just to the west side of the Massif Central. Cows everywhere, most a pretty burned gingerbread colour. This area is the Millevaches park region, but though we counted, we only got up to 987 so think some have gone missing somewhere. A pleasant drive which crossed back over the Dordgogne and Vezere rivers and then the Vienne through the Corrreze region ... read more

Drove the 330 miles from Caen to Theresa’s dad near Limoges in the centre of France Arrived just after 4pm. A superb problem free drive. Decided to empty the car for the time we are here as it is looking a bit back heavy. ... read more

Friday 17th July - Caen - Salon La Tour (south of Limoges) Cabins were all taken on the ferry so I had booked a reclining chair in a lounge. All well and good I should imagine if you locate your chosen recliner at the start of the voyage. But having changed out of my soaking trousers, pigged myself on a surprisingly delicious lamb shank, written some drivel for yesterday's blog and looked at the map it was now 1 am. I duly lobbed up at the lounge expecting to crash in my booked seat before it became apparent that you couldn't see a damn thing in there. The lounge resembled a cinema but with absolutely no light and sadly no cinema dolly with her trolley and light to show you to her seat. (I must be ... read more

Bonjour Since I haven't done an update on here for a while and I have a few pics to show you all I thought I would spend half an hour doing some updates. Well I went off to France for a little break to stay with my parents who have a farm house there, they normally live here in the UK but had gone over themselves for a break so decided to join them. The weather was suprisingly nice for October, was lovely and sunny and not too cold. I think we only had one day of rain, happened to be the day we had planned to go into Limoges but never mind. I didn't do that much, just relaxed and read my book, watched some movies and drank red wine in the evening with my ... read more