We are slowly making our way up through France.
Lots of camping – lots of coffee and croissants
Some disconnected thoughts  ……..
Rivers are wonderful in France and sometimes they have cascades

Why don’t all countries have municipal campsites that only cost 5 euros for a peaceful and relaxed night?  And huge beds of lavender at the entrance.

I didn’t know that circus wagons were once so common that there is a factory in Germany that made them. We slept in one – so lovely!  Many thanks to Michael and Cristiana for their hospitality.


Pretty villages

with interesting castles

are all very well but what’s the point if there is no shop nor cafe and all the traffic races through like they know it’s just a dormitory town for rich people?
Lovely wooden carving though of Virgin and child. France is good at preserving wooden things.

Driving by I caught sight of many old advertising paintings on the house walls. Too often it was impossible to stop to take a picture but I did in this quiet street – in between lorries hurtling past!

Sometimes you arrive in a little village and find something surprising like that it has a French Scottish festival going on because it used to be the family seat of the Stuarts

More soon – we have travelled a long way and seen so much.  I write this near Calais. Tomorrow is the tunnel!