Today was provence village hopping day - we'd looked at some one day tour itineraries for the region and the villages they visited and thought we'd try that as a diy approach . So we plugged them into our navigation app and headed off. We arrived at the first village and tried to get to the parking area we had identified - the navigation app that up until now had been pretty good, tried to take us under a 2m bridge (the camper van is over 3.2m high). Good thing ...

Another day with the weather not very conducive to outdoor activities, so we decided to visit the Haribo museum before we moved on (lollies for those not familiar with the name!!). It was slightly more informative than expected - we learnt a bit about liquorice production as well as sugar processing as well as the making of jelly type lollies. The kids were delighted with the packets of lollies that we generated during our visit, and Darryl was pleased as he had ...

Our first real patch of bad weather coincided fortunately with our time to move from one region to the next, So for a day of driving through drizzle, rain and the odd clear patch we decided to take a scenic route through a gorge.The weather wasn't too bad in the gorge, apparantly good enough for rock climbing as we saw five climbers partway up the sides of the gorge as we drove through one part. The gorge was stunningly beautiful with tunnels and overhanging bl...

Having done a fairly long driving stint the previous day, we were parked up only 25km away from our first of two stops for the day - the highest sand dune in Europe. Reaching 110m high it was hidden by a forest and suprisingly not really visible until you got close - not even from the parking areas. We walked from the car park up past the tourist shops that were yet to open for the day. The foot of the sand dune was up a path through the trees. The sand was so ...

Le Roque Gageac is a little village in a stunning setting beside the Dordogne river. It had a great feel to it - spacious and relaxing, with a small shopping area, we arrived early and then cooked breakfast and chatted to the Scottish couple in the next campervan while Scott explored the river. Then a walk through the small village for most of us while Scott stayed at the river trying his luck to entice a local fish with salami on half a coke can ring. It would h...