Courtilles du Lido
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If the French can do it, so can I!
... sur-Loire. Running along the river side was a lovely area which invited camping. But there was this sign which said no camping cars between 1900 and 0900. Spoilsports! I bet the French wouldn't have obeyed it. Never mind! We found a car park in the centre of town in front of the big church. Food consumed and then to bed. Noisy, because of the lorries charging through the town centre but fab fun!
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A visit to a cycling mecca
I'm once again writing a blog post during a train journey. If you're wondering, I'm doing all this blogging thanks to the magic of my trusty iPad. Although I am using an external keyboard (anyone who has attempted to type any significant amount of work on an iPad will know why). We are travelling from Lille to Montargis today via Paris. In Montargis we will spend one night before picking up our campervan, or camping car as the French call it, to ...
La Fabuloserie: you will never be the same...
... 40 years making mechanical sculptures from bits of old tins and wire: animals, with moving legs, boys riding bikes, aeroplanes circling overhead on a carousel, and a man drinking who spits water out at unsuspecting passers-by!
All of this has been dissembled and reassembled bit by bit in the garden here.
Link to a video of ...
An unplanned stop, an unexpected Joigny
... which places we would like to live in and how impractical it would be to live on a steep, narrow cobbled street with no parking. It makes Ingle Row seem really easy!
I also indulged in my fascination for old neglected and patched up buildings. I love the patchwork nature of some of these places. ...
From Burgundy to the Loire
... but the past couple of days at least, it's been no problem), walked around an old abbey, got some aniseed candy (it's their big thing in Flavigny; their economy seems to solely consist of a little tourism and aniseed candy), and got pictures of ourselves with gates. It's going to be a little tricky to write this entry, since roughly all we did was drive up to a town, poke around, walk through a church, gawk, take some pictures and leave. OK, it doesn't sound so fun ...
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