Tag: Charente-Maritime

Montguyon (Aquitaine), France February 2022 (Tour 5)

And so by 26 February the journey home was well and truly under way.

We were booked to travel through the tunnel to England on 3 March and that gave us a generous 5 days to get through France to Calais although, we intended stopping in Chateauroux for a couple of days to get the dogs cleared for travel back into the UK and to stock up on some of that lovely Reuilly wine we had sampled on the way down through France.

Leaving Zarautz we crossed the border and drove some 200 miles into France. We stopped for the night a little way past Montguyon at a small, quiet site in Le Fouilloux.

The photos do not properly reflect the weather we were to experience in France during our return journey. Throughout the journey, the sky was clear and blue which made for very pleasant sunny days but absolutely freezing nights. Fortunately, our Van is properly winterised with an excellent heating system.

Camping La Motte is best remembered for it’s two fishing lakes.

There is little of interest around Le Fouilloux but the campsite was pleasant enough and it is within an hours drive of one of the prettier small towns in the area, La Rochefoucauld, where we intended taking brunch the next morning.

And so it was…