Bill n Pat: On the Road Again!

 Another double header today. We had a beautiful little free camping spot at a park in a small town called Longué as we begin heading eastward again. Just us and two other campers. Oops don’t know why the centring. Can’t fix it on my iPhone.   Our morning stop was Saumur, another delightful medieval town. We admired the chateau from a distance, biked through the town a bit, then moved on up the Loire valley with sou gps firmly set on “avoid highways”.  In the afternoon we arrived in Tours for a tour of the tours, but they actually only have one tour (tower) remaining to tour so I don’t know why they call it Tours. We did latch on to a Tours tour though. We spotted a tourist train so we followed it around the town for a few minutes culminating at the magnificent Cathedral with its twin towers. (Oh,,that explains things).  As we exited, there was a Trumph Dolomite classic English car for a photo op. It was. Brit couple on a tour of Tours (there we go again) with a Morr...

Just thinking some of you might be interested in the technicalities of a trip like this.  Due to fuel prices we are driving no more than a couple hours a day so staying in northern France.  A typical day has us waking at 7 ish after a good sleep. Both of us are finding we are sleeping so much better than at home, not sure if it’s the van or just that we don’t have the usual worries of our business at home.  We’ll usually breakfast and tea in the van. It does have 3 way fridge and 2 burner stove. Occasionally we’ll have a pastry we couldn’t resist bought on the previous day. We’ll dump our “po” in the “chemi” sink that most campsites have, and off we go. A couple of times a week we will dump out “grey water” and fill up our drinikning water.  We will drive, not more than 2 hours or 3 at most, to our next destination, find either a proper campground (when we want a shower or laundry). These can be 15 to 30 Euro. Similar to North America. What is wonderful here, especia...