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.
The ladies visited Mercier champagne one day and the Moet Chandon another when we were enroute to Sameon. Whilst the ladies toured the champagne Duncan and I watched the Tour de France and the Formula 1 from the comfort of our campervans in the Moet Chandon car park.
This was a quiet rural site with enclosed pitches.
Sameon was a convenient overnight stop for us at the end of an idyllic first week. The “kids” were travelling back to the UK on the Eurotunnel the next day. So this was our last night together, for now.
We then moved to a municipal camping site at Val de Vesel. We haven’t stayed in French municipal campsites before. We had ready they were basic although I really liked this one. We are quite self sufficient and we don’t use the site toilet block or showers.
The site is surrounded by farmland and the canal is nearby. There is very little amenities in the village so you need to come prepared with everything you need at this site.
There is an interesitng maze created in the corn field. This is next to an amusement park, but I’ve left that out of the images, on purpose.
It’s taken a while to start adding more updates from our tour of France in the summer, so a series of updates will follow.
We visited the Tour de France in Dunkirk where Duncan met Geraint Thomas and collected the famous Gilet.
We stayed here for at Saint Amand les Eaux for a couple of nights, visiting the tour in. Dunkirk and the cobbles.
I spent a day editing and looking after the dogs whilst everyone visited the tour in the cobbles.
After an overnight Britstop in Chesterfield enroute from Glasgow we took the Eurotunnel and arrived in Guines. We had a trouble free quick trip on the Eurotunnel with an easy pet check-in. Max did not like the train very much though.
We arrived in Guines to nice weather and settled in for a few nights.
We are staying on sites for the first part of the trip as we travel in a family convoy. We have stayed here many times over the years. It’s a lovely rural relaxed site, yet still close to the Eurotunnel and ferry terminal.
This is the first trip in Duncan’s Caddy Maxi as we just finished the build, so far so good.
We are off to watch the Tour de France over the next few days.
This video captures an overview of an overnight Britstop in South Kelvington, Yorkshire then West Runton, the Norfolk Broads, Bakewell and the Metal Bridge Inn Britstop near Carlisle.
We visited a few beaches, flew our drone a few times and captured some of the boating on the Nortfolk Broads.
It is an interesting off road drive down to the CCC site. Wendy didn’t like this drive very much especially after the narrowness of the A149. Fortunately we did not meet anything coming the other way.
We also made short visit to the beach at West Runton.
It is not easy to find parking for campervans at West Runton as most of the car parks have height barriers. The car park at the beach is limited to 2.1 metres so we parked opposite the shops on the main road.
We also made a visit to the beach at Cromer.
The day started well with a beautiful sunrise from our campervan door. I captured some of the sunset from the beach.
We set off to visit the Mull of Galloway lighthouse and Scotland’s most Southerly point. The weather was great and this is a brilliant drive. Well worth the effort.
On the way back to the campsite we visited the harbour at Port Logan too.
The video below captures some of the drive, Mull of Galloway and Port Logan.
We are enjoying the sea view from our pitch whilst on a trip to Scotland’s most Southerly point, staying at Sands of Luce whilst we relax and explore some of the local area.
There is plenty of space on the beach, especially at low tide.
Wendy is enjoying a drink after a long walk on the beach.
The video below captures our time at Luce Bay.
On the home leg, we crossed the Ballachulish bridge and stopped at Glencoe to fly our drone whilst trying to do justice to this stunning scenery. Then we continued to the Caravan and Motorhome Club site at Bunree.
There’s some timelapse footage looking towards the west bank of Loch Linnhe and some footage of the Corran ferry from the air, and the campsite.
McNaughts On Tour 