We’d debated moving on today rather staying for the final day of this camp site’s season. However, the Mistral started blowing with some ferocity overnight and continued into the day. Since towing across the Mistral can be less than comfortable…

The blogs have been building up again having failed to find the McDonald’s in Arles. Today we wanted to get some exercise and cycle the 4mls/6kms into Maussane-les-Alpilles avec laptop and try the supposed free WiFi hotspots in town. The…

In sterling act of courage we dragged ourselves away from our home for the last six days at St. Jurs near Riez and embarked upon 80 miles or so towards Les Alpilles. The Chaîne des Alpilles is a small chain…

All those threatening clouds had dissipated overnight and we awoke once again to a cloudless blue sky. Could this ever get boring? No, absolutely not. Anyone who thinks that large amounts of good weather gets tedious needs their lumps felt.…

Riez does have a market, at least on a Wednesday it does. Our road sign deductions proved to be accurate. It was an excellent market, too. For once we bit the bullet and paid market prices instead of supermarket prices…

One of the main reasons we headed southeast in France this year was to get into an area that we have hitherto not visited. The southeast part of France shouldering up against Italy contains a national park called the Mercantour…

The Vercors Massif is a large, difficult-to-access plateau lying at about 1000m/3100ft above sea level just to the north of Die. It’s an attractive place looking almost alpine and caters both for walkers and skiers. We visited the Vercors once,…

[Well, you can’t seriously expect me to resist a name like that, can you?] We’d had some of the wet stuff overnight but the morning was dry though still cloudy; clearly not a day to go up to the high…

Carol had located a camp site that sounded much more like us on the approach to Die (which, I imagine, is pronounced “Dee” in French); it was a relatively new aire naturelle (4-5 years old) that would “have some shade…