Bucket List 196: France!
The Road Travelled · Tales From France · Photos
Country 51/196: France. What better country to take Vishnu the van to first than la France? A campers paradise, the country is filled with aires and rest-stops for weary van lifers or exhausted eco-warriors. From the Celtic north-west to the alpine south-east, there isn’t much you can’t see or do here – except wear swimming trunks in public pools (only budgie smugglers allowed for some ridiculous reason). If braving the capital, be sure to make the effort to Versailles – it makes Buckingham Palace look like Heston Services.
The Road Travelled
Tales From France
Read Between the Wines
October 29th, 2021 Following last week’s visits to Paris’ teeming tourist attractions, Lowri and I decided we’d had our fill of bustling conurbations and so instigated a five-hundred-kilometre drive westwards across the French farmlands to the Atlantic coast. It was our longest - and most monotonous - leg thus far but, thankfully, made all the more enjoyable by…
Don’t Baguette the COVID Pass
October 24th, 2021 October 9th, 2021. The day I moved from four walls to four wheels and embarked on an expedition that, for the first time, has no scheduled end. My new fixed address being a white converted panel van called Vishnu, a vehicle that will, hopefully, transport us to many places far-flung for the foreseeable future. Us…
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France
Country: 51/196 Visited: Autumn/Winter ’21/’22
