The Adventure Continues

We left Mont St Michel on the morning of the 7th Jan and after a quick fuel stop headed for Quiberon a place we had been told to visit by a french surfer we met last summer in La Torche, near Penmarch.  He said that it was one place you must visit, well oh my god as you drive along you can almost touch the sea either side of the road, one side massive waves coming in off the atlantic then the other dead flat water,  hard to take it all in but we were heading for an Aire out on the end of the peninsular for the night.

Well as usual nothing is simple and on arrival at the Aire we pulled up to the machine put our debit card in but nothing happened so we tried again but nothing so a quick phone call to the number on the machine and 5 mins later a very french looking man turned up in a van,  rattled away in french for a minute or so and pointed up the road so Julie backed the van out and followed  him up the road and through a gateway that I don't think I would have even driven through and proceeds through another even narrower gateway to a hard standing and in a round about way we managed to come to an agreement that we could stay for a couple of nights free of charge because the machine wasn't working and I must say the view was amazing and were the only van there.

We quickly set up the van and unloaded the motorbike and did a quick lap of the island, it was another one of those places that in the summer you probably wouldn't be able to move so after a nights sleep (although most of the night we could heard the huge waves crashing) it was up and on the move towards mum's place with a quick stop over half way.  After a quick flick through another of our many books we opted for a little peaceful site in a village called Chef Boutonne just below Poitiers. We gave them a call and funnily enough they were actually English and owned an old water mill and had a few places to pitch up, perfect apart from doing a lap of the village first because we missed the sign for the campsite, but we were soon made very welcome.

We left Chef Boutonne mid morning and drove down through some absolutely stunning countryside and through some lovely villages but still avoiding any toll roads which is completely different to what we normally do when travelling. Once at mum & alan's as usual they spoilt us with some lovely food and of course plenty of wine and stories. Today we got up and decided to give the van a good clean to get rid of all the salt from the waves at Quiberon and to get it ready for the next step of our adventure.

Not many places where you can stay with free food, store stuff, get free wine, electric, hot power showers and you can wash your van on your pitch!  We will come back here for sure.......! THANKS MUM x

We will continue our journey from here early next week and head off to Meribel.

J&J

x