Well what an awesome place 👏 . It's been just the job. Beautiful riverside location, friendly staff, clean, well loved, pool, perfect amenities, ping pong, close enough to town to ride to and home after dinner and our penultimate evening......Moules-Frites night. Complete with entertainment en Francais 👍. Camping le Beau Rivage. It was a bit … Continue reading Butterflies, Bath tubs and Beau Rivage →

Says Andy as he puts his knife and fork down this evening. Now don't get me wrong, he is really rather adept at the old bbq. But such modesty?! I'd have been a bit gutted if the rib of beef we'd just eaten wasn't any good. It was a solid purchase from the butchers counter … Continue reading “I Rock!” →

After having a lovely time in Tuscany, we had a hairy ride to Pisa yesterday and decided that we were over the emotion and frankly affection of the Italian drivers in sneaking through non existent gaps! So we packed up, jumped on the autostrada then the autoroute and 670km later are all set up on … Continue reading Nous sommes arrivés →

We've succumbed to the convenience and ease of a megacampsite near Viareggio on the Tuscan coast which is pleasant enough but I am v glad we are not here in the height of summer. If the warm weekend we just had is anything to go by, this place would be swarming! As it is, we … Continue reading Mega-camping, mega-ants and mega-projects at the seaside →

It occurred to me whilst we were in Chianti-shire that one of my favourite things to do is vineyard visiting, exploring and a little produce tasting with pals. Having done some d-work this morning, I've been reminiscing about wine tour adventures and happy smiley 😊😁😎 pictures! My first ever vineyard tour was in South Africa … Continue reading Wine Tour Tastic 🥂🍷 →

After a quiet few days driven in part by the weather in general and the cloud that is the doctorate (Oh yes, I was expecting reality to hit, but it still came as a bit of a shock remembering that it's still not done), we've just spent a couple of days living it up in … Continue reading Multi level FOMO continues 😦 →

Sun salutations are good for stretching muscles tired from biking 🚴‍♀️😊. Croissants could be the new slow release energy food....as long as they're combined with later Haribo bears. Tired legs can still make peddles go round and Sian's route planning is much more sensible and tool appropriate even though the guidebook scaling for the elevation … Continue reading Random musings from today… →

I start the day in a really chilled fashion. Awake ages before Andy, I roll out the yoga mat and do a few sun salutations whilst the kettle boils for coffee. Then I'm sat admiring the view and listening to the birds and insects going about their business as the campsite wakes up. It's so … Continue reading Today’s lesson is that Strada Bianche = Scary Not V Compact Gravel Surface →

So we headed from the rain, or so we hoped, into Monaco so we could inspect the remnants of the F1 a couple of weeks ago. As we queued to get into town, there was much evidence of what had been with stockpiled barriers, fencing and stands in every spare patch of land. Once we … Continue reading Some miles later……. →

That was the start of our day after a massive thunderstorm overnight. More of that in a minute. One of my favourite things is packing up camp in the rain, standing on squelchy mud and shoving it all wet and muddy in the van 😢. Just thinking about the delights that await us the other … Continue reading Wet, wet, wet…. →