Two Go to Provence

[Puddleduck]

I've often wondered how good the canned sprouts would be?

But someone must buy them I suppose.

 

[pagey]

we were about to go on a trip down to spain for 2 months but i had a fall on friday and messed my face and eye up so now its france for 4 weeks so i will follow your thread eagerly

thanks

 

[Ingwe]

There were half a dozen people in the sea at West Bay yesterday the fools. A friend of our daughter’s indulges in this madness and has done since childhood. Strangely her Nigerian husband hasn’t joined her yet

We’ve swum at Armacao de Pera and Denia in January. It was cold but felt great once you’d warmed up again.

Post script: we warmed up eating a couple of tins of canned sprouts.

 

[yodeli]

I've often wondered how good the canned sprouts would be?

I like them in tins , fried up with butter and parsil and garlic of course!

 

[gus-lopez]

I will keep an eye out for them as I like brussels.

Have a safe and pleasing trip..will follow this thread...keep posting

Martin what were you doing posting at 4a.m.?

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[yodeli]

DBK Have a nice trip. Such a pity I am not in Toulouse (Balma) anymore. But just in case ... I will take pics of the campsite we have here in Valence d'Agen (82400)and will make a complete description on the devoted forum.
I've been of no use last year indeed when you broke down. I was so busy with all sorts of problems! Hopefully nothing wrong will happen this time.
Just a little check..... : Bonjour Monsieur, où comptez vous vous arrêter en cours de route? Avez vous déjà planifié tous vos arrêts? (Of course, usually I say TU, not VOUS, but wanted to test you a bit!) Tut tut tut, no google translation please!!!

Amicalement
Frankie

 

[jumar]

I will keep an eye out for them as I like brussels.


Martin what were you doing posting at 4a.m.?

Night shift...strange but could be a VPN that I have active on my phone..

 

[FZ]

Jumping into this thread with interest for the future.
Hope all goes well for you and looking forwards to (lots and lots) of photos

 

[DBK]

DBK Have a nice trip. Such a pity I am not in Toulouse (Balma) anymore. But just in case ... I will take pics of the campsite we have here in Valence d'Agen (82400)and will make a complete description on the devoted forum.
I've been of no use last year indeed when you broke down. I was so busy with all sorts of problems! Hopefully nothing wrong will happen this time.
Just a little check..... : Bonjour Monsieur, où comptez vous vous arrêter en cours de route? Avez vous déjà planifié tous vos arrêts? (Of course, usually I say TU, not VOUS, but wanted to test you a bit!) Tut tut tut, no google translation please!!!

Amicalement
Frankie

Frankie, (sans Google!) notre route après Bretagne est Rennes, Le Mans, Poitiers, Limoges. Avant Toulouse nous nous ternerons vers Haute-Languedoc. Après je ne sais quoi.

Les arrêtes nous déciderons par jour.

Félicitations pour la langue française.

 

[yodeli]

Frankie, (sans Google!) notre route après LA Bretagne est Rennes, Le Mans, Poitiers, Limoges. Avant Toulouse nous nous ternerons (can you give me the English verb here as I don't know which one it is) vers Haute-Languedoc. Après je ne sais quoi. (here , to make it more French I would say : Après je ne sais pas encore quoi)

Les arrêtes (arrêtes is "fish bones", you want to say "Stops"arrêts) nous déciderons par jour. (Nous déciderons au jour le jour. This one is a bit tricky as it's an idiom). Well done anyway , I could get what you meant, and obviously you didn't use google! Very good!!

Félicitations pour la langue française.

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[Wildbill]

Enjoy you trip DBK
WB

 

[Cliff D]

I'm looking forward to following your tour. Safe travels.

 

[Terry242]

How was your experience of getting into the CCP with the new system?

Terry

 

[namwaldog]

Frankie, (sans Google!) notre route après Bretagne est Rennes, Le Mans, Poitiers, Limoges. Avant Toulouse nous nous ternerons vers Haute-Languedoc. Après je ne sais quoi.

We followed part of this route a couple of weeks ago. One of the stopovers we particularly liked was the CCP Aire at La Fleche south of Le Mans.

Nice lake to walk round with plenty of wildlife. An easy walk to shops (LeClerc is about 600metres) an interesting ranch style demarcation of the pitches.

The barrier was up when we arrived. We swiped our card to try and let them know we were there but it didn't register but a quick phone call to their helpline soon sorted us out and we were allowed out the following morning!

Enjoy your trip!

The aire is the 'saved' one with the red circle and 3 bars, bottom left.

 

[yodeli]

How was your experience of getting into the CCP with the new system?

Terry

There is a new system then? What has changed please?

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[VXman]

There is a new system then? What has changed please?

Phone/app based - I think they send you a code.

 

[chaser]

I explained this a week ago , we went to the bray dunes one and just went in with the old card as usual, no mention of codes.

 

[LesW]

There is a new system then? What has changed please?

New 'members' don't get a card, instead the app generates a code for you to get in, and presumably use the facilities.

So if you have a card, there's no change.

 

[paddymcc]

Have a great trip, always enjoy your threads and love haute provence

 

[cyberyacht]

There's an ad hoc park up overlooking the river as well opposite Camping La Flèche

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[Riverbankannie]

Talking of cheese …………..
We are at Cabrales Las Arenas on the fabulous AS-114 which is not to be missed. Reminds me a lot of Cheddar Gorge with cheese caves and cider. The cheese blows your head off !

Cabrales cheese - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[DBK]

How was your experience of getting into the CCP with the new system?

Terry

We just used the card and it opened the barrier. However, the machine where you can top up the card and even get a new card has been broken (with a blank screen) since we arrived.

I wonder if they are going to eventually get rid of cards and switch to a system where everything is done on line?

Edit: Just read the later comment by LesW which explains this is indeed the way they are going. Presumably it is cheaper and possibly more reliable. I don't have a special code to leave so I guess you use the one to enter or as we used a card to get in they assume we will use it to leave?

I might try using a code sometime and see if they send me one to leave.

 

[DBK]

We followed part of this route a couple of weeks ago. One of the stopovers we particularly liked was the CCP Aire at La Fleche south of Le Mans.

Nice lake to walk round with plenty of wildlife. An easy walk to shops (LeClerc is about 600metres) an interesting ranch style demarcation of the pitches.

The barrier was up when we arrived. We swiped our card to try and let them know we were there but it didn't register but a quick phone call to their helpline soon sorted us out and we were allowed out the following morning!

Enjoy your trip!

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The aire is the 'saved' one with the red circle and 3 bars, bottom left.
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Thanks, we were there a couple of years ago and enjoyed a pleasant walk around the lake. The aire isn't the most attractive but the lake or lakes are worth a look.

 

[DBK]

We went for a longer walk today of two and half hours with a stop in the middle for a sandwich lunch.

We headed east along the coastal path to Port Neuf and then a little way further on to try and find a geocache which has defeated us in the past and did so again today. Everyone else seems to find it but not us!

On the way to Port Neuf we saw this new house which has an impressive natural rockery ("rocaille" in French?) in the garden.

Port Neuf.

We had lunch here, very pleasant but the wind was cold.

We are going to move on tomorrow, heading east and stopping on the coast for one night before striking inland on the journey south.

 

[Lenny HB]

I might have give up on this thread just the mention of sprouts makes me want to throw up

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[jockaneezer]

If Popeye got super strength from eating tinned spinach, just think what he could have done scoffing tinned sprouts !

 

[Puddleduck]

I might have give up on this thread just the mention of sprouts makes me want to throw up

Me too yet I do like spinach raw or just shown the pan of boiling water.

 

[Figaro]

I might have give up on this thread just the mention of sprouts makes me want to throw up

I had similar thoughts about confit duck gizzards

 

[DBK]

Mrs DBK has used shredded Brussels sprouts in a stir-fry, treating them as baby cabbages. I doubt this would work with tinned ones though.

 

[Nanniemate]

Charlie will post something on his blog soon along the lines of One Dog goes to Provence which added to our two makes up the three of us.

If you'd left out Charlie you'd be in the dog house

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