As you may have noticed, we have not published a blog for a couple of weeks, so this is quick round up of what we have been doing.
Monday 19 September, driving further northwest we visited Cluny in Burgundy, a nice campsite which was half closed down for the season. We walked in to town and visited the Abbey. It was a big complex and the largest religious building in Europe until St Peter’s Basilica was built in the Vatican, there was not that much left of it. There were lots of models and artists impression of what they think it looked like in the various centuries.
On Tuesday the visiting of Burgundy wine producers started with a Co-operative in Buxy. We bought some wines including a 5 litre box for €12.95! the best that could be said about it was “it’s not bad”.
We found a campsite in Cormatin.
Wednesday, we started the day visiting the Chateau in Cormatin, a tour in French, but at least they gave us a English translation. Unbeknownst to us the translation was done years ago by a friend of Nic’s family, who lived close by and who used to give the Chateau tours in English.
Parts of the interior the Chateau are in their original 16th state, a very interesting building.
We got back to the campsite just in time to check out at 12noon, and drove on to Lungy and Vire. Both with caves, so more wine tasted and purchased.
Continuing our drive northwest, we spent the day in Colmar, a lovely town!
On to Nic’s cousin near Strasbourg, a great weekend, drinking of wine, including at the local wine maker. We also help pick and press grapes to make wine. So we’ll have to visit again when the wine is ready.
Monday 26 September, we left Strasbourg, heading towards Calais to catch the ferry on Tuesday, back to the UK. Saw a car on the opposite carriageway flip! Not sure what caused it, but thought it was heading our way!
Spent a few days in Kent with more family. Nic went to see the new ABBA voyage. A hologram show which was amazing.
Saturday 1 October, a drive back to Pock to finish our 3,900mile road trip.
Then spent the week packing up the motorhome, repacking all our stuff in parents lofts and garages (thanks again for the storage solutions).
Managed other domestics, eye test, haircuts, cholesterol check (Rog – all Ok), Covid jabs! And a good catch up with family
Sunday 9 October, a cheap train to Manchester, a direct train York to Manchester would have been £42 for both of us, taking 2 hours, a train via Bradford was 20 mins longer and saved us £31, saving doesn’t sound like much, but the Easyhotel in Manchester was £28.
Went to see Dave Gorman (comedian) that night in the palace theatre, a good laugh.
A very quick canter through what we have been up-to in the last three weeks, hopefully we can get back to the normal weekly service.
Travurple 