🇫🇷That’s it for this trip.
❤️Loved every minute of it.
🚐Thanks for sharing it with us- still the last 3 videos to come out over next few Mondays- for those of you gluttens for punishment!
🦮Buddy all sorted with his wormer ready for heading back to the UK on Sunday.
💻Easy to book online and the vet is just across the road from the aire in the town. €48 for a cheap pill and a signature!
🐐Love watching our campsite neighbours kidding around.
🤔Buddy is not so sure…and of course we have a cockerel as an alarm clock!
🚐Lovely little campsite with very friendly owners.
🥵It’s going to be a hot few days so we are chilling here with our new friends.
❤️Lovely spot for tonight, official overnight place between canal and river.
🐟Cleanest canal we’ve ever seen- can see right to the bottom. Full of life!
🤷♀️Who knew baby black bullhead catfish were so cute- like tadpoles with whiskers!
🐟Mr and Mrs Coypu made an appearance today too- chowing down on a fish supper.
🦊Trail cam out again for tonight- list of overnight visitors seen so far: cat, fox, mouse, badger, hedgehog and…a rat! Hoping for success tonight!
🗡️In Vancouleurs tonight- this is where the 16 year old Joan of Arc set of to fight the English during the Hundred Year War to put Charles on the French throne as King. She was given a horse, sword and men’s clothing by the town’s people.
🔥3 years later, the English burned her at the stake in Rouen for heresy - the basis of which was essentially the fact that she dressed as a man!
🇫🇷This was eventually overruled and she was made a Saint and is a French national hero.
We were barmy back in the day!
❤️What a beautiful city! Just loving Nancy, the historic capital of Lorraine.
❤️Also loving Nancy Passions Sucrées Spécialities…and we’ve bought a few to try from one of the patisseries.
🍥A few euros lighter and a few pounds heavier we are!
🎉 Happy Bastille Day from a near deserted ski resort.
🇫🇷Peaceful ski village to watch the sunset
❤️Loving our time watching all the storks at this campsite. A very rainy day but brightened up by seeing these amazing birds swooping overhead.
🦖When the shadow passes over you it feels like it’s a pterodactyl flying past and the beak clattering…well that’s just like being in the jungle with a dozen Predators. They sound just the same!
❤️The young ones are so little and scruffy looking though…here’s a little one waiting for his smalls to be dry at the laundry!
🤭Well that’s one way to cool yer bits down. 🥵It’s sweltering here in France but at least Buddy’s got it sussed out!
🕯️Back into Strasbourg to watch the Olympic Flame be carried by a series of torch bearers. Got a good spot in a bar to watch the parade.
🔥Not sure who the legend was who did our bit, but he did the flame walk proudly.
❤️Quite emotional really…
🧚Hope you spent Summer Solstice doing something nice. We were alone in a wood, next to WW2 underground bunkers, surrounded by magical fairies!
🔥Or fireflies…it was an amazing sight and one we’ve not seen before. The woods were alive with hundreds of floating lights. We managed some slow shutter speed photos and I got this amazing video footage 😜.
🫣Don’t blink!
After 2 nights at Stenay we have bid farewell this morning in search of WW1 battlefields.
🍻The beer museum in Stenay was a good visit…and would have been even better value if we’d have realised our camperstop QR code got one of us in for free! At €5 each that would have paid for a few baguettes! Good value nonetheless.
Anyway…on to some serious stuff next 🪦
🇫🇷Our first night in France last night- free stop in a forest carpark. Late to arrive and early to go is the rule in these sorts of places so we are up bright and early following a very noisy dawn chorus…starring the cuckoos!
❤️What a lovely way to wake up and head onwards
🐶Buddy waiting patiently for his Animal Health Certificate to be completed at our vets.
🇫🇷All done and he’s ready for France on Sunday!
🙄Uh oh!… this means we need a pull out.
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🪶Wait for it…wait…wait…
🎞️Beautiful nature watching at Trowbarrow Nature Reserve.
📹 Watch out for our next video as we’ve got some fabulous nature photography (well, it’s not David Attenborough standard, but good for us!)…and Mr Robin gave us a good show on the camera at the end of the bench!
🚿Well this is a treat! 6 days on a proper campsite (a holiday park no less!).
EHU, showers, swimming pools, restaurants and entertainment.
🌬️Taking advantage of cheap deals at Haven- didn’t order the wind so hoping that dies down.
💩Oh… and need to get Buddy’s squits under control before we head anywhere inside with people!
A quiet day as our boy as V and D- squits and squirts all day. Poor lad ❤️
🎨A very successful first art class today for us both- you’ll have to watch the next video to see the results!
🎨We took the art class at the campsite we stayed in last night at Greenscapes Nursery.
❤️Now moved just outside Pen*stone on a lovely site with cracking views of the countryside.