Archive for June, 2008
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
17 miles, Confolens to Chabanais
We were sharing the site with a star, it turned out. We’d noticed a tattood Dutch couple in a big caravan with a fenced area and four dogs. We’d been slightly concerned when we first saw them that we’d have barking dogs running around being a nuisance, but they were very well behaved and we […]
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
20 miles, Moussac to Confolens
Having forgone the excellent shower last night due to a large spider that hung menacingly from its web near the ceiling, Kez was outraged to see the lady from the Dutch caravan strolling back from an entirely different direction with a towel around her neck.
‘Where does she think she’s been!?’ she barked with hands on […]
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
31 miles, Bonnes to Moussac
We packed up and cycled the few miles down the river to Chauvigny where we spent the rest of the morning and lunch time exploring the ‘cité medievel’ and a beautiful public park which had families of ducks and geese cruising around on strangely green water. A penned area with a grumpy racoon, some unusual […]
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
18 miles, Chatelleraut to Bonnes
When I awoke around 7am and trudged across the site for the toilet I noted the lady from New Zealand had already packed up and gone. Good on ya I muttered, repeating a phrase she’d used a couple of times last night. We wouldn’t be gone for at least another three hours.
When we did leave […]
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
30 miles, L’ile Bouchard to Chaterellaut
It seemed a shame to leave our favourite camp site so far, but we’d gazed at the river, soaking up the sun for a whole day, and had a good walk around the town so after a breakfast from the boulangerie of pain au raisin for me, and a cravatte viennoise for Kez we slowly […]