Pushing further south, we headed from Moncofar towards Javea to meet up with some friends and for Kelpie to get his first experience of “free camping” (not on a campsite or aire). Javea is a small coastal town, turned modern resort, and lies in the shadow of the impressive Montgó Massif mountain, which changes shape […]
Kelpie is tucked into quite a large pitch at Camping Monmar which is a large campsite at the other side of Nules Playa in a small town called Moncofar (Moncofa in Spanish) (39.80838, -0.12721). When we arrived, the young man at reception came out to have a look at the size of Kelpie and thought […]
Kelpie is parked up on a large free site behind a Spanish restaurant in Nules Playa, Valencia – overlooking the mountains behind (39.83535, -0.10492). We wakened this morning to a fast-filling site at Peñíscola. Vans were arriving one after the other. A Spanish family arrived last night and parked in the pitch beside us which […]
We have reached the Mediterranean coast and are parked up in a large aire in Gruissan, which will be our final stop in France this season. It is free to stay here during the winter and Kelpie has seen his first busy motorhome stopover, though it also looks like many are here for the duration […]
Kelpie has started heading east towards the Mediterranean and has crossed the London meridian line. He is tucked into the corner of a large brand new purpose built aire in the UNESCO World Heritage town of Moissac, France (44.09791, 1.09284). Alan had done some research on Google maps to see where exactly the aire at […]
Kelpie is sitting in a shroud of mist beside a canal marina in the village of Fontet in France. (44.56202, -0.02343) We left the aire at Clérac around 12.00 and headed towards the nearest Lidl (all the European Lidl’s are stored in our satnav) for some supplies. We are going back to bottled water for […]
Kelpie is hemmed in on all sides by lots of cars and a pony and cart at Lignières Sonneville, France. (45.5567, -0.1828) I finally managed to get the letters posted home before we left Coulon. We sorted out our co-ordinates for today and told Sally and Dory where we wanted to go. We’re even on […]
We are parked in a paid aire in Coulon, France and Kelpie is plugged in getting his batteries recharged. (46.3206468, -0.5919825). Got up reasonably early (for us) and headed off towards Coulon which SatNav Sally assured us was only one hour away. The roads started as motorway and gradually reduced in size until we were […]
Kelpie has settled for a couple of days in Campsite del la Motte, in the quiet village of Vendrennes, France (46.825623, -1.117577). It wasn’t difficult to pick out this campsite en route, most of the campsites in France close in October and this was one of the few open all year round. We arrived in […]
Kelpie is parked in another free aire on the side of peaceful parkland outside the town of Rennes in France (48.11845, -1.59105). Arriving in Rennes – after dark of course as the winter days are so short – we drove through an industrial estate directed by our two satnavs, Sally the Chinese satnav (Dorry is […]