Thursday 26 September 2013

Heat, chateau & getting hotter

So, we are now in day 5 of the trip & where are we?  Well, we have passed through the Loire , visiting the chateaux of azay Le rideau, a*, Villandry, A**** gardens chinon A- let down by rediculous plastic dragons emerging from every turret & daft UT interpretations.

We are now parked up lovely wooded site at brantome, the Venice if the perigird, along side the river dronne.  The weather is flip in' hot though, which is good

We have driven through some wonderful countryside, rolling hills, wooded valleys, broad leaf woodland.  Past fields if maize & sunflowers waiting to be harvested.  Vast fields go yellow & red apples, signs pointing to foie gras, all much too much

We have kept an eye on the weather as l think there could be some sort of low in the bay of bis at so the plan is to dawdle through the dordogne for a bit.

No photos as yet as have to figure how to upload pics from iPad to blog...

Saturday 21 September 2013

Ready steady go

As is so often the case in our household, any travel that requires booking is done very, very last minute.  So, dear reader, l am sat in the costa coffee lounge on the p & o ferry from hull to Zeebrugge, hastily scanning road maps, trying to plan tomorrow's route.

The weather forecast, according to the good old BBC, is good, l checked last night before booking.  The choice was rattle south to Provence or tootle across the west coast of France.  Decisions decisions.... Ok so we head west, next problem do we travel via Rouen, missing the dreaded 'p' word or do we attempt to find the N 104 & the  Paris outer ring.  Still out on that one, will decide in the morning.

I have, you will be pleased to note, highlighted in green marker pen, two possible over nighties, either Le Mans (Rouen route) or Orleans ( the Paris route).

Perhaps l ought to mention who else is travelling?  Well, the pilot of  the 05 reg hymer b564, is husband stephen , whilst l am the navigator.  Every year l keep meaning to keep a blog diary & every year l forget, so this year, fingers crossed, here we go!