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Those who noticed i wasn't that much online the last two weeks ,
No ....i am not taking a break from the forum!...... that means we where out of the house and finally our first trip of the year took place!
Planned a trip to my brother in-law who lives in Beaumes de Venise ( near the Mont-Ventoux)
Left home the 6th(my birthday!) afther lunch , Cali was offcoarse ready to go since a few days already as we looked out for this trip.
Drove about 350km using the motorway (peage) arriving in Mutigny at a lovely free camperspot with view over the champagne vingeyards
http://www.campercontact.com/en/fra.../13514/motorhome-parking-aire-municipale.aspx
Had a "flot bleu " facility
Took a small walk and spent a quiet night , will be using this spot more in the future!
Thursday left of planning only route national and no peage . Direction South thru Borgondie looking for some camperlocations i looked up and finally arriving afther about 300km at the Lac du Chamboux in the Morvan region , here ...
http://www.campercontact.com/en/fra...n-morvan/13745/motorhome-parking-parking.aspx
No accomodations just a gras parking at the border of the lake at + 500 m altitude.
Quiet night not much cars passing the road .
Cold morning.....
Cold at night , woke up friday everything lightly frozen , breakfast and on the road again for another day driving 300km looking for a small campsite thats already open , as many are still closed this time a year.
We got a ACSI pass so used this site
http://www.campercontact.com/en/fra...motorhome-parking-camping-de-tournon-hpa.aspx
for 17euro all in , two adults , dog , hook-up included
Was ok for one night but the sanitairy need to be renovated , but had a good sleep close to town and market in the morning .
Enjoying the boats passing...
Sathurday drove about 150km to Beaumes the Venises where we stayed until last sathurday the 16th staying in the house at my brother in-law only used the Cali fridge to cool stuff....
only drove in it once to the supermarket....
Did some walks and enjoyed the nice weather between 20 and 25 celcius in the afthernoon!
The 16th took of arroud 11am to the Ardeche region to a place we vistit frequent as family rents a house there each year .
We spend the night in a parking at a small town called St-Alban-Auriolles afther 120km driving , again a "flot blue " was availeble
http://www.campercontact.com/en/fra...auriolles/5607/motorhome-parking-parking.aspx
Sunday drove to a very nice free campingspot at a fishinglake in Lurcy Levis in the Auvergne region doing almost 400km
http://www.campercontact.com/en/fra.../motorhome-parking-plan-deau-des-sezeaux.aspx
Realy a place to go if looking for a spot in that area!
6 places lakeview , kids playground , walk arround the lake in 30 min , toilets in pretty clean conditions ...all free to use !
Shame we arrived late afthernoon and the weather was bit cloudy and rain came up in the evening the whole night , but blue sky when we woke up afther a lovely night .
Monday's drive was back to the champagne region where i was looking to visit a champagne house with accomodation to camp and got 2 gites , a 300km drive
http://www.champagne-nowack.fr/index.php/fr/visite.html
We where there a weekend about ten years ago with a Land Rover Club i was owning a Defender back then.
A very nice site having everything needed even better then most campsites i ever visited.
Offcoarse the first thing afther popping up the roof , i went for a botlle witch we emptyed pretty fast , then went to taste some others and bought some botlles to take home....slept as a baby!
Leaving sunny France thismorning to arrive a even sunny hometown this afthernoon , 450km drive , took the motorway - peage again to the Belgian border and futher down home...
Did total of 2330km in 7 days as we where in one place 7 days not sleepng in the Cali.
6 sleepovers in the Cali , 4 in free camperspots , 1 camping and 1 at the champagne house .
No ....i am not taking a break from the forum!...... that means we where out of the house and finally our first trip of the year took place!
Planned a trip to my brother in-law who lives in Beaumes de Venise ( near the Mont-Ventoux)
Left home the 6th(my birthday!) afther lunch , Cali was offcoarse ready to go since a few days already as we looked out for this trip.
Drove about 350km using the motorway (peage) arriving in Mutigny at a lovely free camperspot with view over the champagne vingeyards
http://www.campercontact.com/en/fra.../13514/motorhome-parking-aire-municipale.aspx
Had a "flot bleu " facility
Took a small walk and spent a quiet night , will be using this spot more in the future!
Thursday left of planning only route national and no peage . Direction South thru Borgondie looking for some camperlocations i looked up and finally arriving afther about 300km at the Lac du Chamboux in the Morvan region , here ...
http://www.campercontact.com/en/fra...n-morvan/13745/motorhome-parking-parking.aspx
No accomodations just a gras parking at the border of the lake at + 500 m altitude.
Quiet night not much cars passing the road .
Cold morning.....
Cold at night , woke up friday everything lightly frozen , breakfast and on the road again for another day driving 300km looking for a small campsite thats already open , as many are still closed this time a year.
We got a ACSI pass so used this site
http://www.campercontact.com/en/fra...motorhome-parking-camping-de-tournon-hpa.aspx
for 17euro all in , two adults , dog , hook-up included
Was ok for one night but the sanitairy need to be renovated , but had a good sleep close to town and market in the morning .
Enjoying the boats passing...
Sathurday drove about 150km to Beaumes the Venises where we stayed until last sathurday the 16th staying in the house at my brother in-law only used the Cali fridge to cool stuff....
only drove in it once to the supermarket....
Did some walks and enjoyed the nice weather between 20 and 25 celcius in the afthernoon!
The 16th took of arroud 11am to the Ardeche region to a place we vistit frequent as family rents a house there each year .
We spend the night in a parking at a small town called St-Alban-Auriolles afther 120km driving , again a "flot blue " was availeble
http://www.campercontact.com/en/fra...auriolles/5607/motorhome-parking-parking.aspx
Sunday drove to a very nice free campingspot at a fishinglake in Lurcy Levis in the Auvergne region doing almost 400km
http://www.campercontact.com/en/fra.../motorhome-parking-plan-deau-des-sezeaux.aspx
Realy a place to go if looking for a spot in that area!
6 places lakeview , kids playground , walk arround the lake in 30 min , toilets in pretty clean conditions ...all free to use !
Shame we arrived late afthernoon and the weather was bit cloudy and rain came up in the evening the whole night , but blue sky when we woke up afther a lovely night .
Monday's drive was back to the champagne region where i was looking to visit a champagne house with accomodation to camp and got 2 gites , a 300km drive
http://www.champagne-nowack.fr/index.php/fr/visite.html
We where there a weekend about ten years ago with a Land Rover Club i was owning a Defender back then.
A very nice site having everything needed even better then most campsites i ever visited.
Offcoarse the first thing afther popping up the roof , i went for a botlle witch we emptyed pretty fast , then went to taste some others and bought some botlles to take home....slept as a baby!
Leaving sunny France thismorning to arrive a even sunny hometown this afthernoon , 450km drive , took the motorway - peage again to the Belgian border and futher down home...
Did total of 2330km in 7 days as we where in one place 7 days not sleepng in the Cali.
6 sleepovers in the Cali , 4 in free camperspots , 1 camping and 1 at the champagne house .
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