My Travel blog

Our reason for going to Simacourbe was very specific: we wanted to see a real Carmelite convent. We had been looking for a functioning enclosed religious community in this part of the Pyrenees-Atlantiques, and in this tiny village we found the Carmel Notre-Dame de la...

Lourdes was one of the places we had particularly wanted to see during this part of our journey through south-western France. We arrived by motorhome while travelling with our dog, which immediately made the visit slightly more complicated because ordinary dogs are...

Mont-de-Marsan was another of the practical stops that naturally become part of a long journey by motorhome. We had not planned a proper sightseeing visit to the city; what we needed that day was simply to do some shopping and restock the motorhome before continuing...

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...

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 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...

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...

Tours was one of the places along this part of our journey where our experience was determined less by what we wanted to see than by the practicalities of travelling with a motorhome. We would normally have spent some time exploring the city, but we could not find...

During our journey through the Loire Valley we visited the Grand Aquarium de Touraine, at Lussault-sur-Loire, only a few kilometres from Amboise. After several days spent among villages, châteaux and small motorhome stops, it was a completely different kind of visit...