Week one on the road

So here we are at the end of the first week of our travels, parked up by the sea, sun blazing, Fang cooking brunch of fried eggs (French) baked beans (Macclesfield) toast (French) and wondering why the heck we haven’t thought of doing this motor home lark before. I have to say this is like nothing we have experienced before...the freedom to go where you want, stop for lunch in beautiful spots and park up at night in the middle of the country side with just the birds as your alarm clock in the mornings is a delightful way to live. We are relaxing into this lifestyle so much that we no longer spend time planning our route. At some stage during the day we decide if we are staying where we are or moving on, if moving on we get the map out and pick a destination not more than 2 hours drive and off we go. It is so easy getting around France in a motor home as everything is set up for it, there is room in car parks and plenty of places to stay and service your home (get fresh water and empty grey waste).

On Wednesday we spent the night and a couple of days at a little place called Honfleur in Normandy. Honfleur is an absolutely beautiful little harbour town with old Norman buildings and narrow meandering back streets, very like a Tudor town in England but French. In the centre of the town is a stunning wooden church with two alters and two aisles side by side. We are not sure how this unusual configuration came about. The church was a place of age and serenity and one of those places where it is just nice to be.

We are now in Brittany just outside a little harbour town called Concanaue on the south coast. We are heading for Bordeaux but keep getting diverted off our route to go and see places we hadn’t planned on......in fact come to think of it we hadn’t planned on being in Brittany but here we are! Next stop who knows but we will keep you posted