We were attending a family event in Wales and were granted permission to park up overnight on the site. What a beautiful setting.
Overnight park up in Wales
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Fabulous Findhorn aire in Moray, Scotland
We were attending a family wedding so we decided to take our campervan and stay at the Findhorn aire. We were also joined by our son and daughter in our son’s recently converted Caddy Maxi. You’ll have ready previous posts about the conversion if you’ve been following our journey.
The aire at Findhorn is brilliant. It’s clean and modern, with an electronic booking and access system. Everything worked perfectly from arrival to departure.
We arrived late the previous evening and loved the lack of light pollution. This is the view from our van at 10:30 pm. With the correct conditions you can see the Northern Lights. Unfortunately we did not on this occasion.
It’s a few minutes walk from the aire to the beach.
There is a maximum two day stay so the aire was emptying the day we left and provided a good opportunity to capture the Caddy Maxi in the foreground and our Ducato in the background.
France Tour
That’s the end of our posts for our 2,200 mile tour of France. You can view video content of the whole trip here.
Tardinghen aire
We were looking for a stop over near the Eurotunnel which we had not stayed at before when Wendy found Tardinghen aire. This is a working farm with a small number of tiered pitches over looking the sea and other pitches in a field area behind the barn.
Facilities are basic with fresh water, waste water disposal and chemical toilet disposal. This suits us as we try and be self sufficient. There is also electric hook up available at some pitches.
The farmer is very friendly and collects the fee in cash in the evening.
St Valery sur Somme aire
On our way back north we have been revisiting several places we stayed at in 2014. The next is the aire at St Valery sur Somme. It’s a very tidy aire with automated barriers. I did not take a photo of the aire, only the weather as it has changed significantly from the glorious 40°C.
It’s rain and 20°C now.
The town of St Valery sur Somme is about a 15 minute walk from the aire. It’s lovely and well worth the walk.
It is a little steep as you approach the town. The historical memorabilia shows this street has changed very little over its history.
Jumieges on the Seinne
We continued to travel North and stopped at Jumieges. We are returning from our previous visit on 2014. There is a short ferry crossing across the Seine, with the campsite being only 5-10 minutes drive from the slipway.
The weather has been fabulous this whole trip and it peaked at 40C. This was really too hot for Max, so Wendy wrapped him in a cold water blanket and put a fan in from of him. He was cool and comfortable whilst we were roasting hot.
With very high temperatures we tried to keep a shaded area for Max.
I tool advantage of the hot temperature and peeled off the “Free Time” graphics on our van. We have been planning to create our own logo, so I’ll need to do this now.
The pitches here are large and are enclosed with hedges so they are quite private. This is a quiet site.
Returned to Honfleur for an overnight stop
We returned to Honfleur for an overnight stop as we travelled North. This time we had some pals.
I walked to the edge of the restricted zone and got some aerial views from my drone.
Stop over at Granville aire
We had a stop over at Granville aire as we started travelling North. The aire is really a car park on the outskirts of the town beyond the harbour. There is not much of a view as most vans park against the wall.
There is a brilliant view over the wall though.
There are also several relics of world war two at the cliff.
Back at the magnificent Mont Saint Michel
We travelled south to Mont Saint Michel. We were last here in 2014. It hasn’t changed much and is still magnificent.
Max (our labrador) is an old man now and not really up for the walk to Mont Saint Michel from the campsite. Dogs are not allowed on the bus so we relaxed here at the campsite for a couple of days.
Overnight stop over at the beautiful Honfleur
We stopped at Honfleur in the afternoon for an overnight stop as we head South. We’ve stopped at this aire a few times before.
The aire itself is basic and functional. The harbour areas are nice with the inner harbour particularly picturesque.
We felt a little like “billy no mates” as it appeared none of our European pals wanted to park up next to a British registered campervan.
McNaughts On Tour 