Tour de France

In response to:Along the Loire

2009-10-28T08:40:59+01:00

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In response to:The Somme Beaumont Hamel

2008-05-10T18:49:50+02:00

I Have Been There On A School Trip

In response to:Come on our Adventure with Us

2007-08-23T19:23:50+02:00

Thanks Andrew
I wanted to offer as much information as possible but leave it open to you to explore. I didn't want to present a go here do this pay 10 Euro a night type write up.
So glad you enjoyed it.

We have just returned from 2 months back in France and I will continue to blog it on my campingcariste.blog.co.uk

I agree with your point on a plain white van, it is difficult to know the best path to follow. I have gone for security, physical, electronic and notices. Some people have wild camped for years and had no problems.

In response to:Come on our Adventure with Us

2007-07-18T09:47:38+02:00

I want to thank you for your blog. Most informative. I am planning a similar trip round France, probably 3 months, and wanted to know all about it. I was particularly interested to learn about 'security' and sensing where to leave the van. I have recently been thinking that a non-descript white van might be a better bet security wise than a camping car which states 'tourist with valuables on board'.

Wonderful blog. Thank you

In response to:Grand Tour de France. Fin.

2007-03-18T20:54:18+01:00

Yes yes, that is the end of my notes now. Although I may sort out the costings, it could be helpful for anyone planning a future trip.

Meantime we are daily resisting the temptation to be off.

In response to:Grand Tour de France. Fin.

2007-03-18T17:58:04+01:00

Darn it, you're back already.
Meant to ask you to bring 10Kgs of coffee from Auchen.
Mo

In response to:The Mad Knife-man of Brittany

2007-03-12T20:43:06+01:00

Dunkirk veteran aye!

It's the nature of accidents isn't it. We realised we needed to consider safety and had our little rules.

Add Rule 17634 :- Knife in toolbox, toolbox to job.

Wait a minute, wait a minute, that makes it my fault.

In response to:The Mad Knife-man of Brittany

2007-03-12T19:14:11+01:00

Ouch !!!

I know the feeling, I was injured in Dunkirk.
I was pulled down a lamp post by this burly chief engineer but as he ran with me on his shoulders he tripped on the bridge and flung me onto the hard stuff. A broken rib. A bridge too far. Shouldn't go drinking with engineers, they turn into animals.
At least there was no blood.

Ah, the things you do when away from home....

Super travels you're having, smashing commentary and piccies, makes us sewer-tube boaters quite envious.

Mo

In response to:Barfleur

2007-03-09T20:31:31+01:00

Hi Irish
Yes, you see the pictures but it's different when you are there.

To stand at the tideline on the wide, exposed flat beaches and imagine facing the enemy with nowhere to hide.

Then the acres of white American crosses, very moving.

In response to:Barfleur

2007-03-09T20:05:54+01:00

Never really been to the beaches of the invasion. Would really like to do so and also to see some of the memorials etc. Difficult with an 8 year old daughter.

In response to:Normandy Beaches Omaha and Utah

2007-03-09T00:34:22+01:00

Hi Funks
I saw you have been busy, thanks for the comments.
Been busy in the garden here today too. Ooh me back!

In response to:Normandy Beaches Omaha and Utah

2007-03-08T22:17:35+01:00

Hi,
I have finally foud time to sit down and catch up.
Beautifully written and beautiful pictures. You really ought to publish.

In response to:Falaise Gap and more Cheese

2007-03-05T21:05:17+01:00

I have actually spoken to some people from Skegness who were staying at the Aquadrome in a caravan. You what Walt?

Ah! so you like the cheese that guides you in from the hardware department at the supermarket by smell, we do too.

Thanks for the comment on the pics. The camera is Kodak DC215, it got glowing reviews when new but at only 1.2M pixel its below spec now and is relegated.

In response to:Falaise Gap and more Cheese

2007-03-05T16:20:05+01:00

Have they heard about Billing Aquadrome that far away? Crumbs, we're done for as a tourist country now.

Bring us some of that really smelly cheese, the smellier the better, the stuff that has no respect for polythene wrapping and passes through steel lunch boxes.

Yummee.

Love the pics, what camera you using?

Mo
Balmahahaha

In response to:Honfleur Deauville anf Treauville

2007-02-28T21:34:43+01:00

Thank you for the invite, I will mark my map. All France is so beautiful and welcoming. We come each year.

In response to:Honfleur Deauville anf Treauville

2007-02-28T20:57:30+01:00

Visit a nice village in Languedoc-Roussillon beetween Camargue & Provence :
http://villededebouillarguesgard.blogs-de-voyage.fr

C U soon !

In response to:WW1 Verdun Battlefields

2007-02-20T01:18:00+01:00

Hello roselyne

Yes a long trip, but there is so much of it you just leave along thin trail. So there is plenty left to see incluing Bretagne, when we started it was too cold so we headed south.

Verdun, yes awfull, the young men who did not have the chance to marry, have kids....live a life. Subjected to Hell and death. There were no cowards.

I will post more battlefields later some moving stuff.

Thanks for reading

In response to:Bayonnettes and Mort Homme

2007-02-20T01:00:49+01:00

Thanks Funks, bedtime now. Good night

In response to:Bayonnettes and Mort Homme

2007-02-19T23:09:10+01:00

Brilliant

In response to:WW1 Verdun Battlefields

2007-02-19T22:11:30+01:00

Just stamble upon your blog CC :)... you had a long trip around France ! did you visit Bretagne too (west point) ?
oh yes, so sad Verdun, isn't it... horror of every single war...

In response to:WW1 Verdun Battlefields

2007-02-19T00:12:48+01:00

Hey Mo

I spotted you when I first started this blog, I thought, hmm, will keep an eye, then instantly got waylaid and forgot.
A Friends invite is in order I think.

I love the canals, as a child I was always around the Grand Union and the Northampton Arm. Fishing, biking, train spotting, nature watching etc.

Then I lived in Blisworth, my allotment was up the top of the coppiced bank on port side aproaching the tunnel. I had a small boat then which I kept at Bugbrooke, I still have a lock winch handle.
I used to rendevue with Radio Ham Boaters, did radio communication through the tunnel experiments with them and have downed a few tots on board at Stoke Bruerne.

We stay sometimes in the 'van at Nether Heyford where there are morings on the opposite bank and the floaters and the wheelies become one.

Canals in France, yes indeed and some beutiful morings, some with free electricity. I shall be writing up a couple we met on a barge in the Champagne region very soon.

There is always the Midi too, aka Rick Stein, Atlantic to Med through Provence. You probably know the network I recon it is navigable all over.

camper's

In response to:WW1 Verdun Battlefields

2007-02-18T19:11:24+01:00

Hiya
Watching from the sidelines.
Was recommended your blog by wassername, forget now. oh yes, Funky Farmer.
Keep up the words and pics, it helps broaden the minds of those of us stuck on canals.
Any canals over there, near vineyards?
Mo

In response to:WW1 Verdun Battlefields

2007-02-18T16:23:45+01:00

Sure thing Usksider. Writing it is traumatic. The inhuman conditions were un-imaginable. No wonder they didn't want to talk about it.

In response to:WW1 Verdun Battlefields

2007-02-18T15:35:08+01:00

I always find myself with tears in my eyes when I visit that area of France; such a senseless waste of life by both sides. Vimy Ridge, The Somme, Passendale and the rest must have been such beautiful places before Death stalked among them. How men survived the carnage is simply beyond me.

In response to:Vincey, St Miheil and Seuzey

2007-02-17T23:38:11+01:00

You keepa wavin, I'll keepa writin Funky.

In response to:Vincey, St Miheil and Seuzey

2007-02-17T19:36:16+01:00

:wave:

In response to:Horror amoung Beauty

2007-02-17T00:44:07+01:00

You park and walk to the camp, there were many people but not a sound everyone stunned to silence.

In response to:Horror amoung Beauty

2007-02-17T00:14:11+01:00

I just hope people don't forget these things in the future!

In response to:Alsace

2007-02-15T21:31:23+01:00

Hi Funky, are you keeping up.

Gruyer cheese today, some REAL smelly stuff tomorrow.

Hope you are feeling better I was not sure if the Bedford Hospital bit was a joke when I read it quickly earlier.

In response to:Alsace

2007-02-15T20:19:07+01:00

:wave: Hiya