Thursday (29th August) You will be pleased to know the dogs had a great walk, and even a smashing swim! We are just outside Pamplona at Camping Ezcabar, a large site mostly filled with seasonal pitches and small chalets; nestled in the foothills of the Pyrenees. After lunch we strolled down to the river that … Continue reading Pyrenees, Pamplona, and Pelota!

Our ship - the Galicia As we drove off the ferry, dark brooding clouds surrounded the port of Bilbao. It was clear that the local clouds had invited their chums and relations to come and put on a show for us. Sure enough, as we drove up the steep hill out of the city, the … Continue reading Y Viva España

Bayeux is full of Americans! When we planned our weekend city break in Bayeux we hadn’t realised it was going to clash with the 79th Anniversary of D Day Celebrations. After weeks of hardly hearing anything other than a French accent it is strange to hear American accents everywhere. We are parked up in the municipal … Continue reading Of Frogs and Americans!

We arrived in the charming town of Domfront en Poiraie by accident! Our original destination, the campsite at Clécy was full. It is yet another bank holiday – the French seem to have almost as many May Bank Holidays as we do! We had remembered reading about a town with a real Norman castle, a … Continue reading Busy in the Bocage and the Suisse Normand

We are back on the coast! Honfleur and Houlgate are two towns that are like chalk and cheese. Honfleur has a history that dates back to before Bill the Conqueror was a lad and Houlgate is a very smart, late 19th C holiday resort. However they are both united in a love of disruptive roadworks and … Continue reading Honfleur and Houlgate

Rouen is almost 80km up the Seine from the river’s mouth at Le Havre but it is still France’s 5th largest port. Large container ships and cruise liners are constantly sailing back and forth at all stages of the tide. The tide now is a lot calmer than it used to be. The Seine once had … Continue reading In the coils of the Seine

Monday May 22nd 2023 Warning! This post is for folk who have struggled with dog training or who don’t mind dogs. If you do please look away now? Some of you will recall the calamitous attempts in Italy and Croatia last year to introduce Bryn to the delights of being towed behind my bike in … Continue reading When Bryn gets taken for a ride

18th May 2023 It’s Bank Holiday Thursday in France and we are chillin’ on a lovely campsite in Étretat at the end of our first week on tour. I’m sorry that this is the first post of trip but that’s because we have been too busy having a good time and everything so far has gone … Continue reading Week 1 – the Côte d’ Albâtre

Monday 26th September Classy Chamonix and Climate Change One thousand metres up in the Alps lies the ski resort of Chamonix. We drove for an hour or so from Aosta, through the romantic alpine scenery of mountains, valleys, precarious castles and monasteries, and plenty of tunnels. In fact, very little of the road we took was … Continue reading When We Dashed Through France and Bryn Became French!

September 25th 2022 We are parked in the shadow of Mont Blanc (or Monte Bianco as we are still on the Italian side of the border), in the tiny commune of Sarre. At 620metres, this is our highest campsite on the trip so far. We’ve driven 200 miles north to the Alps, and in that time … Continue reading It’s a Little Chilly