With our aim of following the sun we continued west to the Bay of Biscay on the Atlantic coast and our next stop at Bidart, just south of Biarritz and in French Basque country. A complete change of scenery and architecture, much more built up and with the white and red half-timbered houses that are… Continue reading The Atlantic Coast

We’re starting to see and feel the changing of the seasons with nippier mornings, evenings drawing in and colours starting to turn. We’re hoping that we can continue to camp until late October but need to be a bit more mindful of the weather and temperatures if it is to remain enjoyable, so following the… Continue reading Changing Seasons

Although most of our stay in Angoulême was focused on the vintage car racing, we were able to see some of the city although much of the centre was obscured by marquees or railings. Angoulême is the capital of the Charente department and sits on a plateau above the Charente river. The centre of the… Continue reading Angoulême – the city

Before we left the UK, having seen a feature about vintage car racing around the ramparts of the historic centre of Angoulême, we decided to make that one of our stops and booked up for Circuit des Remparts. Our base for the 5 days was the municipal campsite just outside the city and next to… Continue reading Circuit des Remparts Angoulême

Back in July we tried to visit the ‘Village of Martyrs’ at Oradour-sur-Glâne but were thwarted by a lack of phone signal to access our health passes that had been introduced for museums in France that very day. Joe has already visited the site a couple of times so a few days on my own… Continue reading Oradour-sur-Glâne

Fortified by lunch and a glass of wine I headed off to find out about the porcelain that Limoges is world famous for, and the place to do that is the Musée national Adrien Dubouché which houses the most extensive public collection of Limoges porcelain in the world. The current museum dates back to the… Continue reading Limoges – Part II

We’ve travelled back to the house in the Haute-Vienne as Joe is travelling to Normandy to meet up with biker friends from the UK and attend the Normandy Beach Race, a race of vintage cars and bikes that takes place on Sword Beach in Ouistreham. (https://Normandy beach race.com/en/). This is the first time we’ve been… Continue reading A solo trip to Limoges

On another of our days out from Sainte Foy we headed due south to the Dropt river valley, exploring the towns of Eymet and Duras and the countryside in between. The Dropt river is a tributary of the Garonne and today runs through gentle rolling countryside of corn, tobacco and sunflowers but originally would have… Continue reading Eymet and Duras

We’re in the heart of wine country here so we can’t miss the opportunity to check out some of the produce. First to the east and the Monbazillac region south of Bergerac which is famous for its sweet white wines. The village of Monbazillac and Chateau de Monbazillac were our destination for a day out… Continue reading When in Rome…

We moved on last weekend and the week seems to have flown by. We have some things planned in September and won’t be moving further south until they’re done, so we moved just a couple of hours north to Sainte Foy la Grande which is about 15 miles west of Bergerac and on the south… Continue reading Sainte Foy la Grande