Tag: adventure
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Brittany and Decompressing in Damgan, Stepping into the Past in St. Malo
Brittany extends a relaxed welcome to us as we appear in Damgan, positioned in the Gulf of Morbihan natural park. Camping Célimène squeezes us in for three days, even though we have to move pitch each day, one bijoux pitch next to the recycling and one on top of the children’s playground. But so many…
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Gorgeous Gavín in the Aragonese Pyrenees
974 metres up in Aragón’s Tena Valley, Camping Gavínis terraced, surrounded by holm oaks and pines, the russet, jagged mountain teeth sticking up through the tree canopy. It takes us back to when our children were small and we came upon a gem of a terraced campsite, scented with hot pine, behind the busy Côte…
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Arbitzu – Basque Country on the Spanish Side of the Border
It’s as if there’s a festival in the carpark of the EkoCanpina at Arbitzu, in the Pyrenean foot hills. Large groups are partying while they wait. But far from being turned away as I suspect we will be, they find us a place in the field, right on top of the outdoor gym equipment. We’ve…
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From Wicklow Town to Bantry Bay Via The Rock of Cashel
Wicklow Town sits on the sea, with an island in between the Leitrim River, named after the Leitrim Regiment who were stationed here in 19th Century, and the seafront, which explains the rather gracious houses lining the river. Today the seafront is full of children getting ready for sailing lessons, the quays themselves bustling with…
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Villeneuve-lès-Béziers – Cycling the Canal du Midi to the Mediterranean and an Ornithologist’s Dream
We arrive at Camping Les Berges du Canal, and it does just what its name says, the canal with its green waters, barges and rampant wildflowers runs right outside it. The banks are lined with plane trees. Béziers lies 5 kilometres along the cycle track, and its cathedral comes highly recommended so why do I…
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Why it’s impossible to zoom through France – From Dieppe to the Med’s Béziers
The plan is to bomb through France to Catalonia for our Spring tour. The minute we park up in Dieppe at Aire Camping-car Dieppe, there’s the usual magic, with the lights from the narrow restaurants reflected in the port’s waters, the masts of the sailing boats, the ghostly chalk cliffs, and Notre-Dame de Bonsecours looking…
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Bulgaria’s Veliko Tarnovo – Tsaravets Fortress and Dramatic Gorges
We arrive at the attractive Tarnovgrad Apartments, complete with gym, right in the middle of Veliko Tarnovo’s old town, round the corner from the Bey House, where the Turkish administrator lived. Redbrick, low-slung, surrounding a lush courtyard garden, it lends a little bit of Turkey to the town. The apartments sit just below the stunning…
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Moody Mountains and Pirates’ Coves – Waterford’s Dunmore East to the Ring of Kerry
Waterford’s Dunmore East offers up classic seaside holidays. Think, pirate coves ringing with people splashing and swimming until 11 pm. The Strand Inn packed to the rafters inside and out. The cliffside park studded with scarlet montbretia and the sounds of the kittiwakes squawking. As if that’s not enough, there’s fresh hake and Dublin Bay…
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