Tam n pups winter trip 2022

[DandG5515]

If only lol, even in Malaga the temperature has dropped now between 16/18 degrees, what about a ferry to Gran Canaria lol

Just come back from Fuerteventura, I have never seen so many eu campers on the island before.

 

[Dutch 68]

Just come back from Fuerteventura, I have never seen so many eu campers on the island before.

Well if you want consistently good weather, then it’s the place to be

 

[Littlewheels]

That bit of France is warm. He made up his mind a long time ago he no like France.

I love France its a Motorhomes dream we are so well catered for and the Country is so vast and diverse but it’s so sleepy when away from cities and the oddity of opening hours, if you go for lunch at 1.00pm you are too late and so on.Oh, and the lack of Bar culture l find frustrating.

 

[Northernraider]

If only lol, even in Malaga the temperature has dropped now between 16/18 degrees, what about a ferry to Gran Canaria lol

Currently 5° here so I'll take it lol

 

[CaptainPaul]

It's a whopping 13° here in Costa del Donegal! & not a cloud in the sky as I sip my cappuccino and enjoy my pan au chocolat.... we're so continental us Paddy's....

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[Northernraider]

Right then folks I'm still on the a75 and I'm not far from millau. So where is this expensive crossing because I don't fully trust my satnav to avoid it , is it on the a75? If so do I need to.bypass it?

Answers fairly quick if possible lol

 

[HarryML7]

Right then folks I'm still on the a75 and I'm not far from millau. So where is this expensive crossing because I don't fully trust my satnav to avoid it , is it on the a75? If so do I need to.bypass it?

Answers fairly quick if possible lol

Last Junction before the peage is J 45

 

[TUCANO]

Last time I did it l came off for the D49a for Millau itself.

 

[TUCANO]

D41 sorry.

 

[Rogerwyn]

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[Northernraider]

Aye its OK fortunately the satnav knew it would be thrown out the window if it didn't get it right . I'm in milau now .. going to have lunch and a walk . See if I can get a photo or two

 

[cyberyacht]

Interesting, you're gearing is a little different to mine, assuming you were in 5th when you took the photo.
At 60 mph I'm just a touch over 2000 RPM, you look to be about 2700 RPM at 60
Yours is a much larger van, so Fiat (?) must have selected different gearing but it might explain higher fuel consumption ?

Interesting? Terrifying more like. Taking photos of the dash at 60mph on the autoroute, unless one of the dogs took the picture of course.

 

[Northernraider]

Interesting? Terrifying more like. Taking photos of the dash at 60mph on the autoroute, unless one of the dogs took the picture of course.

I has a cup of coffee in the other hand and was holding a ginger nut aswell as the phone lol

 

[StephandJohn]

Thanks for the photos. We love France but having driven through there to Spain in November before we won't be doing that again. Too cold, wet, quiet for us. Love being there in the other seasons.

 

[Riverbankannie]

We travelled part of the “Route Napoleon” down to Borg-on-Bresse in September. great weather but, after a sleepless night in a roadside Aire we said never again Nevers! Now I regret not looking around as the churches stain glass windows look great.

We had been away nearly a week, what with the diversion to Mons for the pet passport, so we stopped on the municipal campsite for a couple of days R& R and long hot showers. We were a bit Billy no mates though.
Found Nevers to be more interesting the more we looked,

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[Riverbankannie]

I love France its a Motorhomes dream we are so well catered for and the Country is so vast and diverse but it’s so sleepy when away from cities and the oddity of opening hours, if you go for lunch at 1.00pm you are too late and so on.Oh, and the lack of Bar culture l find frustrating.

Friends of ours went away in October using car and hotels. They found it very difficult to find places to eat open when they wanted to eat. I’m so glad we have our own facilities.

 

[StephandJohn]

They do live to a different timetable than we're used to here. We love France but often found it difficult to adapt to early lunches and the markets closing by 12 often.

 

[Northernraider]

They do live to a different timetable than we're used to here. We love France but often found it difficult to adapt to early lunches and the markets closing by 12 often.

They're just weirdo's full stop.

And their drivers are appalling

 

[Northernraider]

We have just arrived in narbonne . Lovely and sunny since millau I've had to take of my jumper although I suspect I might need it outside

 

[jockaneezer]

We went to the F1 at Magny-Cours a few years back and stayed at Bourges, wish we'd had time to visit Nevers too. The cathedral at Bourges has some impressive sculpting around the entrance door, it shows "condemned souls" being pitchforked into Hell by various demons, that's one way or putting the frighteners on any "sinners" !
It also had, I think, the oldest clock in France from around the 1400's it was huge, certainly wouldn't fit on your average mantlepiece.

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[Littlewheels]

Friends of ours went away in October using car and hotels. They found it very difficult to find places to eat open when they wanted to eat. I’m so glad we have our own facilities.

We have just returned and though l choose stops close to so called facilities where we hoped to have an evening meal it was a hopeless.
l do understand the French attempt to keep their profits at a certain level because of 50% tax and consider they are working for the government if going above this level,subsequently a Restaurant might earn enough opening for 3/4 seasonal months and that’s it.

 

[corconx]

Incidentally guys this is the link to the next part of my trip on polarsteps as I want to keep Ireland separate from Spain.

Polarsteps

Polarsteps is the personal travel log in your pocket.

www.polarsteps.com

Can I ask the 200 and odd people who follow my polarsteps to please leave a like etc on each post when they view it as at the moment there's probably only about 3 folk that ever do and it just often feels like a waste of time and data posting pics etc on it when I'm not even sure people are viewing them. They aren't always exactly the same pics I post on here.

I'd also appreciate any folk that use Instagram @the_boondockin_bums to give me the odd like and follow on there too as I'm trying to build that up . It don't cost nowt but it does make it feel more worthwhile posting stuff If I think folk are actually viewing it

Ta in advance.

I’m one of the three that follow you

Carol

 

[Northernraider]

I’m one of the three that follow you

Carol

There's actually 300 that now follow but only average of 10 likes on any post

 

[monzer]

We went to the F1 at Magny-Cours a few years back and stayed at Bourges, wish we'd had time to visit Nevers too. The cathedral at Bourges has some impressive sculpting around the entrance door, it shows "condemned souls" being pitchforked into Hell by various demons, that's one way or putting the frighteners on any "sinners" !
It also had, I think, the oldest clock in France from around the 1400's it was huge, certainly wouldn't fit on your average mantlepiece.

I was going to make a joke about big clocks but I'm better than that

 

[Northernraider]

I was going to make a joke about big clocks but I'm better than that

You could make an even worse one about being pitchforked to hell by big clocks lol .



But I'm better than that too.

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[Northernraider]

Pics of today


Last nights aire ,

Few pics from milau

And some from narbonne which is lovely but difficult to photograph and they are setting up all the Christmas Market and carnival etc just now but will look lovely when they're done.

We're parked up fairly central at the swimming pool. About 7 or 8 other motorhomes here

 

[CaptainPaul]

 

[CaptainPaul]

Pics of today


Last nights aire ,

Few pics from milau

And some from narbonne which is lovely but difficult to photograph and they are setting up all the Christmas Market and carnival etc just now but will look lovely when they're done.

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Great pics Tam
We like Narbonne too although it was a lot warmer the last time I was there

 

[Grianan]

Lovely photos of Narbonne - Bishops’ palace as beautiful as ever. Lovely light.

I can see the bench where I dropped my bifocals. Had to cycle back to the palace retracing our steps and every place we had stopped - as I walked up to the bench where I’d changed to sun glasses the jardiniere was picking them up off the ground …

 

[Littlewheels]

So unusual seeing it without a few boats moored with the owners often posing, and why not

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