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Touring France Coast to Coast

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In this video, we travel from Roses near Girona in Spain crossing France’s southern border and travel north to the aire at Calais. We have four overnight park ups at Roche De Glune, Lamarche Sur Saone, Saint Imoges and Calais. The island at Roche De Glune is interesting and we return to Lamarche Sur Saone after 12 years so it’ll be interesting to see if it’s changed. We often try to stop at Epernay to allow Wendy to stock up on Mercier’s rose champagne and we hope to stay at the Epernay aire if there is space. Whilst we are parked up at the Calais aire we meet Rose and Paul, a lovely couple who are parked up in the same aire and are also travelling to Vanlovefest in York in the UK. The power of social media connected us!

Exploring Roses, Spain

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We’ve headed sixty miles north up the coast to Camping Rodas in Roses, near Girona. This is another lovely beach resort with the campsite about a 15 minutes walk from the town sea front. Camping Rodas is a large well organised campsite. There’s both a Carrefour market and a Lidl within walking distance of the site too. The beach area nearest the campsite has a few bars and restaurants with mostly large hotels. The other end of the beach has more restaurants, bars and beach bars around the marina. The beach looked lovely although dogs aren’t allowed on it at this time of year so we didn’t use it. There are cycle lanes along the boardwalk although there are some warning signs prohibiting cycling in certain locations and apparently the police do fine cyclists for breaking the rules. We hired a boat here and enjoyed sailing around. The people at Boats Mediterrani were extremely helpful, and were happy to speak English. This is our last stop in Spain before heading north through France.

Investigating Lloret De Mar, Spain

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Lloret De Mar is the most southerly point of our trip. We are staying on a campsite at Camping Blau/Lloret Blau. This is a 10-15 minute walk from the beach. It’s a nice campsite with most pitches surrounded by trees. Our Starlink was partly obstructed as a result, but we still got good reception. There is a lovely well kept beach here, with many beach bars and restaurants to choose from. The larger hotels are typically at the southern end of the beach up the hill. There’s a castle at the northern end with lovely views over the cliff onto the crystal clear waters.

Visiting Garlieston in Dumfries and Galloway

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Garlieston CAMC in Dumfries and Galloway campsite is a lovely site right next to the sea on Garlieston bay, with the harbour a few minutes walk from the site. There is one pub/restaurant (The Harbour Inn) and one cafe (The Hive) on the main street. There is one small shop in the local petrol station, ten minutes away from the main street, so if you plan to cook your dinners then stock up before your arrive. It’s a nice place for a relaxing break.

Europe 2024: Travelling to Ile De Re, France with stop overs at Bolougne Sur Mer, Honfleur and Nozay

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Episode 1 of our summer European tour travels from the Glasgow area in Scotland to Loix in Ile De Re, France. We have park ups in Rugby, England by the canal and aires at both Honfleur and Nozay in France before travelling over the bridge onto the island of Ile De Re. This is the first big trip for our new pup, Lola the Miniature Pinscher, and it’s also the first big trip with our MiRider e-bikes. We intend to tour many of our stops via the cycle routes, so we’ll be capturing footage from the e-bikes as well as our campervan. Lola also has a place on Wendy’s MiRider. Our first impressions of Ile De Re are very good.

Tour: Europe 2023 Episode 4 Fussen to Lake Garda

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In this episode we drive from Fussen in Germany at the end of the Romantic Road to Bardolino at Lake Garda, Italy. As we arrive at Lake Gard the pace of our tour slows down a little as we planning on staying here for nine nights.

There’s lots to do here so and we have a booking at a Fiat garage in Verona in a few days to have the van checked over.

The weather is brilliant and then we experience a sudden storm one midnight, followed by a bird having a dislike to my drone.

This is our third trip to Bardolino and whilst little has changed, we are glad about this as we really like it here. It’s the first time we have seen the amphibious classic car.