Monthly Archives: August 2015

footnotes

we went back to the ‘end of the world’ to eat on wednesday evening as the other restaurant had rather a limited menu. i had discovered the name ‘end of the world’ used to refer to the whole village as … Continue reading

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travels with a donkey?

19/8/2015 16.47 well, the best laid plans and all that. the higher we climbed the colder it got. i pitied the family with laden donkey attempting to make it over ‘les cretes’ to le lioran. at the col de peyrol … Continue reading

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oh, what a night!

19/8/2015 8.58 our first night under whatever has replaced canvas for the first time in i don’t know how long. i was snug having taken the precaution of wearing my warmest winter jimjams (we are 930 odd metres up or … Continue reading

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camping du puy mary

(no wifi anywhere nearby so playing catch up) 18/8/2015 18.45 hunkered down in the tent on camping du puy mary. a lovely location, shame about the sanitation… is it only on french country campsites that you still find ‘wc a … Continue reading

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to the hills!!

well, visitors and a bbq spillage leading to the old man getting a burnt foot have meant that camping jaunts have been on hold BUT the car is packed up and the plan is to head to puy mary tomorrow…watch … Continue reading

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