Travels with Fufu, our motorhome
Sat 25th - Sun 26th June The third day of our stay in the Arcachon area, saw us explore the area around to the eastern coast of the bassin. Before heading there, we needed to buy some milk and visited the Grande Frais store, just alongside the hotel. Wow! What a huge choice of produce. …
Thu 23rd - Fri 24th June After all our exertions at the house, we decided we needed a holiday; a sort of "holiday ...on holiday". The popular French holiday destination of Arcachon, is a small town on the southern coast of the Arcachon Bassin. A large area of tidal water which is almost encircled by …
17th - 21st June This trip, we chose to travel south on Friday afternoon, staying over in Portsmouth before catching the ferry on Saturday morning. We anticipated a troublesome journey, but there was much less traffic than expected, with the only major hold-up around Birmingham, but we were not in a rush as we only …
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Our return home is much the same as the journey out, but in reverse as you would expect; ...we stay overnight in Caen, before catching the ferry back to the UK, the following morning. This means that if we get away from the house promptly, we have time to visit somewhere en-route. This time, we …
Rather than make a separate blog post for each or our trips out and about, I have combined them into one post. 18th April - The Grand Etang La Jemaye About 20 minutes drive from our house is La Jemaye, an area of woodland through which there are a number of walks. There are also …
Every trip to the house demands that at least some esssential maintenance jobs be completed. Nothing like the sort of problems that our friends Jeeves and Michelle experience, as their house is much older, ...but there is always a list: The kitchen tap: The house is 16 years old and so, of course is the …
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The Outward Journey In a change from the usual motorhoming blogs, we have travelled by car to our house in the Dordogne, where we plan to stay for 4 weeks. On such trips, we cross the Channel by Brittany Ferries from Portsmouth to Caen. A route which we now prefer having tried the tunnel and …
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Over the month of October, there have been no trips with Fufu, our motorhome, who has spent the whole month parked-up forlornly on our driveway whilst we have been off galivanting abroad. Due to the Covid 19 restrictions, it has been two years since were last able to visit our house near Montpon-Ménestérol, in the …
