Champagnac de Riviere. 26th Oct-4th Nov

This will be the last update from France. We spent the last week on a site here in Campagnac de Riviere. We were last here in May, when all the leaves were green and our travels were just beginning. Now the leaves are brown, yellow, red and orange. We arranged to come back here so that Harry could see the vet to check she was "fit" enough to travel back to Britain!! As you can see from this photo she is very well and very fit. Some days she has walked for miles up the mountains.



Here is Cicely on our last site in France. Bob and Di the British owners have been very kind and helpful and they have a beautiful site in a very lovely part of France. In the bottom photo it shows Ian and Harry on the cycle path to Chalus. The area here is great for cycling, but unfortunately as I write this it is raining outside, so no cycling today. We have been very lucky on our trip to only have a handful of rainy days, so we can't complain!!
To finish off I want to put down the dates and places we have stayed at over the two months I was not able to write up the Blog.
19 - 26th Aug. Thiers

26th Aug - 7th Sept Bourg d'Oisan -The French Alps

7th Sept - 14th Sept Jonquiers - near Chateauneuf du Pape

14th Sept- 21st Sept Agay - Cote d'Azur

21stSept-28th Sept Limoux - near Carcassonne

28thSept-12th Oct Bertrand du Comminges in Pyrenees near Lourdes

12thOct -26th Oct Capbreton -Atlantic coast.

Will end now and write again when we get to Jamie's house near Bath.
Lots of love to all, Ian and Christine and Harry.

Atlantic coast, S. France

We had a wonderful two weeks on the Atlantic coast.
The food here was amazing - all fish, especially shell fish. The tiny fishing boats went out twice a day and brought in such a variety of fish.




This photo shows some of the fish caught. We were able to walk into the village and buy the fresh fish. We tried some that we had never heard of but they were all good.
The meals in the restaurants were also fantastic, and such good value. Here is me just about to start a Plat du Mer, which consisted of so many different shell fish and fish.






While we were down there we went into the mountains between France and Spain. This one is La Rhune, over 3000feet. At the top you could see the Atlantic coast in France and Spain. We went up in a little Petit Train and enjoyed the walks up there. We are going on into the middle of France near Limoges and will start to move up north for the ferry on 5th Nov. Harry has to go to the vet to be checked before we get to the port. She has also loved her time here. We are now looking forward to seeing the grandchildren again. We are going to Jamie, Siobhan Hamish and Aoife in Somerset first and then up to Edinburgh to see Ross, Elaine Becky and Gregor.