Lovely relaxing morning on Roses beachfront.

Walked, sat for an hour with Jonesy relaxing on my lap. What a great recovery he's made. Now for coffee.

FRIDAY 1ST May....Roses.

Enjoyed Le Barcares,

weather suggested cloud in Roses but we arrived to bright sunshine. Woke Saturday to lovely sunshine so weatherman tells fibs. Been coming to Roses for 37 years when we drove here with Tim as a 3 year old. It was starting to look a bit shabby about 15 years ago but in recent years,presumably to maintain the interest of French holiday makers it's gone through a bit of a resurrection. For that reason every time we visit Spain we drop in here. Now the May day holiday so quite busy. Will stay 3 days and try Tossa de Mar for a change.

Wednesday 29th Le Barcarres

Decided to have a couple of days at Le Floride and review the weather in spain. We've visited this sight several times and tended to pay the extra 5 euros on top of the ACSI rate for own sink,toilet and shower, but now they've made it an extra 20 euros we gave it a miss and parked close to the toilet block.Very quiet on our side of the site but other side busy with kids on holiday. Strange set up for easter holidays in this region. We like the heated pools on the site,the walks into town and the closeness of Lidl . However we did take not that this is a fabulous site for young families with loads of free activities. One pic ...the new free playground in the town.

Tuesday 28th April St Flour

left Vichy using a D road to get south of Clermond Ferrand, thereby avoiding toll. From Clermond, all the way to Montpellier the motorway is free apart from about a 10 euro charge for the Millau viaduct Always wanted to give St Flour a viewing but got to admit i was a little disappointed, but this impression wasn't helped by the rain. i think stopping at one of the cheap Acsi sites at Millau might be the better option. This also avoids paying the viaduct charge.

Mon 27th April Vichy

Left Nemours and headed down to Vichy on A77. Short section to Montargis 11 euro. After that 4 euros. Stayed at Vichy many times , a delightful spa town. Used the top notch ACSI sites on river called Beaurivage weather still hot so used the indoor pool to cool off

Sunday 26th April Nemours.

Great location for a Ca

mping Car parks aire on the banks of a canal,close to a river. Beautiful walk into pleasant town. Access to the aire proved problematic due to a 10k race throughout the town. Just touched Paris Peripherique highway for 20 minutes but quiet for a Sunday morning.

Trip to Costa Brava 2026

This trip was put in doubt and delayed due to Jonesys operation to remove his spleen. As we travelled down on the M6 we received the excellent news that the tumour was benign with no obvious cancer. The news that EU pet passports were no longer accepted also threatened the trip but we arranged to collect an AHC from a vet in Ashford on the way down. It now seems the best plan for these trips is to leave Friday morning around 9.30 arrive at Tim's for when kids get out of School, stay the night, ferry 12.30. Get to the Arras aire for 4.30 after topping up with fuel at the Arras Leclerc. And that's what we did we love Arras, the aire is a 5 minute walk from the plaza full of sun drenched bars. A toilet and shower is on the Aire that cleans itself after use. Lovely beers sat in the plaza where a barman unfortunately spilt a beer all over me