Goodbye France, Hello Spain

Well we're a week further into our tour, and we've moved quite a bit further south.

Firstly let us take you back to the trip from Orcet, Clermont-Ferrand.

Our post arrived from the UK on the Friday afternoon, which we were very pleased with. (Unfortunately there was nothing exciting so it was just like being at home!)

We decided we would stay at Orcet until the Monday so we could go to the English speaking church in CF, which you've already read about.

We left the site at 11am on the Monday morning to join the A75 south. It is a toll free motorway which is unusual in France, but as always it was a beautifully smooth road to drive along. It was smooth on the surface but we weren't prepared for the contours. Wow!.....if you ever get the chance to drive from Clermont, south, take it. The views were superb and the scenery breathtaking. It was quite fortunate we could only do 40mph because it gave us time to take it all in. (40mph by the way was the safest speed to tow in the surroundings.)

We were making our way to Millau, where the world's tallest suspension bridge spans the valley. Logically you would think as our destination included a suspension bridge that we would have realised the contours would also occupy the same terrain! We were just not prepared for the sheer scale of the landscape.







We spent 2 nights in Millau, on a sight which bordered the River Dourbie. In fact our pitch was just opposite the main beach and we had a lot of fun with the dog in the river under the shadow of the suspension bridge.



The town of Millau is also very French, bustling with cafes and markets, brilliant!

The climb out of the town back on to the A 75 is also quite a feat, but when we got to the top we were suprised once again by a huge plateau. You wouldn't have known you had just climbed 500 metres.

We travelled at this altitude for about 150km,and had quite forgotten that we we so high above sea level until we came to the descent towards Montpellier. Again another thrill! 7 kms of 7.5%descent. There were signs all along the way about using 'engine braking' and there were numerous escape lanes should you run into difficulty.

We are now in SPAIN.


We are staying at a campsite called La Laguna, between Castello D'Empuries and Roses in the Gulf De Roses. Yet again we have a wonderful pitch - this time backing onto a lagoon, with the beach 1 minute's walk to the right and the swimming pool 2 minute's walk to the left.

This site does still have everything up and running, and we have had a meal in the restaurant, which was lovely. We think we might stay here for 2 weeks and then make a run down to Alicante for November. We do have Wi-Fi at our pitch here also, so if any of you want to chat we should be able to reply pretty quickly.