Blogs from Limousin, France, Europe - page 7

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

Carrefour in Brive Sandy and I are over our flu and decided to head to Brive today. Brive is a medium size city about 40 minutes north of here. It houses a wonderful cathedral, major SNCF station for the area and a Carrefour. Carrefour is the reason we made the trip. Carrefour is what Super Walmart should be. Built into a shopping centre it is huge with easily distinguishable departments - food divided into a bakery, fish market, meat department, huge cheese section(bien sur), hardware, books, clothing, furniture, etc. A bank, cleaner, DVD rental all can be found. Anything you might want but minus the cheap Walmart crap and the terrible displays. It is soldes time. Sales don't happen all year round but by French law only during a couple of designated weeks each year. Think ... read more

We are now at a site near Montignac in the Vezere valley. Still in the Perigord/Dordogne region. We arrived Thursdsay 25th of September. I have to think hard what day it is now. Each day follows a gentle routine and flows by so quickly . I can’t believe how easy it is to fill the day. I thought I would be bored but there does not seem to be that much time when I can’t find something to do. Visiting places obviously takes up our time and we have pleasant days out doing the touristy things, but the day to day living soon expands to fill the day. I’m very pleased too, how easily we have adapted to living in the ‘van and awning. We each skilfully (if not gracefully) perform what I think of as ... read more

We have had funny old week here in Argentat. We have definitely chilled out and become more accustomed to the French routine of life. The sun has shone all week which always helps. We continue to meet new people camping alongside us. Dutch, German and even one Czech chap and his son. Swapping travel stories and sharing a drink has become an enjoyable part of our life. It's getting cold at night now, although the afternoons are balmy and warm. The caravan is chilly in the morning and we will have to put the heating on overnight now I think. We've explored around these parts over the last few days , in the car, on foot , on the water, in a canoe (for the first time.) and finally ( for me ) on the bike. ... read more

Today is our last day in Crocq and we will really miss it! I got up around 8 and walked up to the boulangerie and came back and made coffee and Ken got up around 10. It was a very misty morning as there was a big storm and a lot of rainfall last night. It made for a hot and humid day!We just kind of relaxed in the morning and I took some pictures of the house we are staying in (even messed up as we had it!). At about 1 pm we went out to La Grange aux Marmots for lunch. We left it a little too late as when we arrived the chef told us he was closed. BUT he said he'd make us a lunch anyway as he remembered me from my ... read more