Thursday 19th September After a bit of a map chat last night, Wendy and I are of to Cahors this morning. Why are we going to Cahors? Well, we’ve never been there before and it’s a name that sounds really familiar so we want to find out why, but the real reason it that it … Continue reading Go West!

Wednesday 18th September There is a touch of autumn in the air this morning. The tables and chairs left out over night have a film of dew on them. Camping l’Ardèchois is a very fine site (and so it should be for 50€ a night!) with a good dog walking area, that is just a … Continue reading Ambition Achieved (#2) in the Ardèche

Tuesday 17th September Our start this morning was a little delayed thanks to Apple. I made use of the unusually good campsite WiFi to install iPadOs 18 but the update still took forever. It was an hour’s drive west to the other side of Avignon (fortunately our bridge was complete!) to the Pont du Gard. … Continue reading Ambition Achieved (#1)

Sunday and Monday 15th and 16th September Camping la Sorguette is our thirteenth campsite and probably has the edge on all the others so far. Wendy and Lesley had a very warm reception from Reception, which you would think should always be the case; but it isn’t. The site is well laid out on the … Continue reading Isle-sur-la Sorgue

Sunday 15th September Do you remember those lazy Sunday mornings when we were at work and looked forward to a lie in and perhaps a spot of breakfast with the Sunday papers? Well it is not like that if your on tour with the Jones’ and Foskett’s. There were larks still rubbing their eyes, yawning … Continue reading Gordes

Saturday 14th September It’s the weekend, the forecast is fine (if breezy), so we think the Luberon is going to be busy, so we are up and off early to head for a little lake on the outskirts of Apt, Lesley has heard about. It is a good place to walk the dogs and get … Continue reading Roussillon – Simply Red

Friday 13th September We left Camping St Jean just before midday and drove into the Luberon. The Luberon was made famous to English folk by Peter Mayle’s accounts of moving to the area and doing up an old farmhouse; it was later a television series starring John Thaw (The Sweeney and Morse). We could tell, … Continue reading And into the Luberon

Friday 13th September Sir Blacas was on a crusade when he was captured by the Saracens. He prayed to the Virgin Mary for his safe return to his home and promised to hang a star above his village in tribute to her. That is why today there is a gold leaf star, 1.25 metres across, … Continue reading A Star is Born!

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 10th, 11th, and 12th September The first Europeans to see the Grand Canyon in North America were Spaniards in 1540, and it was not until 1869 that John Wesley Powell led an expedition through the canyon. Thirty-one years later, in 1905 when the Eiffel Tower was beginning to show its age, … Continue reading Viva la Verdon

Monday 9th September Long time followers of this blog (you have both my gratitude and sympathy) will know that we have been here before, not 44 years ago this time like Narbonne Plage, but only six years ago. We dashed across Italy from Croatia to meet up with Wendy’s cousin Bethan and her husband Huw. … Continue reading Arles in an Afternoon