Bazas: A Medieval City and Its Great Cathedral

After Saint-Macaire we continued south and stopped in Bazas, another historic town that we wanted to see rather than simply drive past. We arrived with the motorhome and spent some time walking through the centre, where almost everything seems to lead towards the...

Saint-Macaire: A Medieval Town Above the Garonne

Our journey through south-western France brought us to Saint-Macaire, a small historic town in the Gironde overlooking the Garonne. After so many rural villages and practical stops along the road, this was the kind of place that immediately justified taking a little...

La Roche-Posay

From Le Grand-Pressigny we drove to La Roche-Posay for a much more practical reason than sightseeing: we needed to do the laundry. Travelling for weeks in a motorhome inevitably includes days like this, when finding a washing machine becomes considerably more...

Le Grand-Pressigny: Prehistory in the Heart of Touraine

Le Grand-Pressigny was one of the more unusual stops of this part of our journey through France, because this time we had come here specifically to visit the Musée de la Préhistoire du Grand-Pressigny. We arrived with our motorhome and stayed at the free motorhome...

Chézelles: A Small Village in Rural Touraine

Our route through the French countryside then took us to Chézelles, a very small rural commune in Indre-et-Loire, away from the better-known towns and major attractions of the Loire Valley. With barely more than a hundred inhabitants, it is the kind of place that can...