Blogs from Royan, Poitou-Charentes, France, Europe

With our holiday almost over we pointed Suzy up north through the Poitou Charentes department of France. We were heading for a small fishing village on the Gironde called Mortagne sur Gironde which we had read about in a blog called Our Tour written by two long term travellers in their motorhome Dave. Having read that there was the only memorial in welsh on french soil what self respecting Welshman or woman could miss it? The coastline is lovely in that part of the world and the weather pleasant too. Our stop for the night was to be an aire. We had used german ones for a while but this was to be our first taste of a french one. We usually baulked at stopping as we like showers when it is hot but to go ... read more

Fortunately the forecast heavy rain did not materialise, where we were anyway. A bit in the night but once we were out and about the weather was pretty fair and a couple of times the sun was quite hot. We left the lovely Ile de Re, over the impressive soaring bridge and bypassing La Rochelle we headed due south. We decided to check out Rochefort as not been there before but though there were lots of parking spaces, they were all already taken. After driving round rather aimlessly for a few minutes while we worked out where we should go we decided the best option was to leave. Back to our southbound road but this time heading across the scenic Marais where we saw herons every 100 yards, we crossed La Seudre, a mighty stretch of ... read more