While we were at Oradour-Sur-Glane, we received a message from a couple of friends we had met on the road on our previous tour. We met Wayne & Felixa in Javea in early 2017. They had arrived in France that morning from the Eurotunnel with the intention of hurtling down through France to get to […]
Our next planned visit was the memorial village at Oradour-sur-Glane. This was a 480km journey, much more than I would ever travel in a day. Our Mercedes 814 lorry conversion has a six cylinder 6 litre engine….. with no turbo, so it is not going to win any races. These Mercedes engines though are world […]
When we arrived on our first European trip in December 2016, we left Cherbourg driving towards Rennes. As we drove along the route, we could see the impressive Mont de St Michel sitting just off the coastline. As we were mere rookies then, we had already picked out our place to stay in Rennes and […]
After visiting the Thiepval Memorial and Ulster Tower, we headed south west towards the coast and the town of Honfleur. We over-nighted in a small town called Forge Les Eaux about half way to Honfleur. Here there was a large aire operated by the campsite opposite. It was advertised as being open from March until […]
From Ypres, our tour of of the Great War battlefields took us south around Lille and Arras to the heart of the Somme region at Thiepval in France. If you have lived in Northern Ireland, you can’t fail to have heard of the Battle of the Somme as to this day it is widely commemorated […]
When we were planning this years trip we fancied trying the Tunnel but Alan was a bit concerned that our old 7.5 tonne lorry based motorhome would be too big. After much himming and haaing, and some advice from the oracles on various Facebook pages, we decided to take a chance and just book it. […]