Tour de France. Our first Tour de France event for this year was at the Team trial on the Day 2. We received a phone call the night before from Guy an English guy we met in Portugul who wanted to do a stage of the "tour" and ended up deciding to meet us there almost last minute. We worked out where we should meet and as he got there before us he saved us a place in a nice side road where there were a lot of other campers, other English, German, French and th...

The Koala has hit the big time featuring in the National newspaper with the Tour de France results.

July 9th 2010 Written on the side of the road near Viry; close to St Claude near the Swiss border. It has been a busy few days, driving through the countryside and following the Tour de France. The scenery is very beautiful; we have driven through forested hills, cultivated farmland, crops high and ready to harvest. Fields of Sunflowers, rows of vineyards, quaint villages and larger more modern towns. We never know what we will see around the next corner ...

Thursday 10/10/09 I'm sitting here in the camper with a million dollar view of Mont Saint Michael on the coast of France in Normandy.We have just come back from a walk up and down through the fortified town and have decided to stay here in the carpark for the night. We have had to pay €8 for the privilege of parking here to see the monument so we have figured that we might as well take the opportunity to stay the night and see the town lit up by night. The t...

Sunday 6th Sept .Carnac - Brittany; France The last few days we have travelled across the breadth of France, stopping only to sleep, tank and to take a break so that now we are in the region of France called 'Brittany or Bretagne'. The weather has become noticeably cooler and it looks like we will have to put away our swimming togs and our summer gear. Never mind we have had a very extended summer season and it's been enjoyable being able to swim regularly and...