Hope you like cheese! It's basically a cheese and ham sandwich, covered in cheese, with a bit more cheese on top!
Where Have You Been In Your Van Today?
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Indeed! A ham and cheese toastie+, 2 for a fiver, much cheesiness, served in a nice corrugated cardboard sleeve with greasy fingerprints all over it. Typical French/Birmingham fare sadly, good though, thanks for the idea!Hope you like cheese! It's basically a cheese and ham sandwich, covered in cheese, with a bit more cheese on top!
That's me at Camping Bonporteau - Cavalaire for the next 3 nights, drove an arduous 100km - probably the most relaxed 100km I've ever done - from Cassis to here.
Had an impromptu T6/6.1 meet up in a layby on the way here...
Campsite spot is shaded so I'll use gas while I'm here, I don't think I'll get a huge amount of solar.
The beach is 500m away (and about 300m down!), it's windy today but even being a Sunday it wasn't that busy! It's a beautiful topaz blue, on the drive I passed about 5 bays, all the same - perfect clear water and the bluest water I've ever seen.
Apparently the pool is at 29 degrees right now, guess where I'm off to!
Edit: can confirm the pool is nice and warm
- from Cassis to here.Had an impromptu T6/6.1 meet up in a layby on the way here...
Campsite spot is shaded so I'll use gas while I'm here, I don't think I'll get a huge amount of solar.
The beach is 500m away (and about 300m down!), it's windy today but even being a Sunday it wasn't that busy! It's a beautiful topaz blue, on the drive I passed about 5 bays, all the same - perfect clear water and the bluest water I've ever seen.
Apparently the pool is at 29 degrees right now, guess where I'm off to!
Edit: can confirm the pool is nice and warm
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385km done today from West of Saint-Tropez, to just north of Gap. The outside temperature hit 29 degrees just inland of the coast, before dropping down to 17 degrees up in the mountains at 1200m altitude!
Via the red rock area Cap Roux, and my last sight of the Mediterranean
And some mountains
And the gorge du verdon, didn't stop for pics as all the stopping places were busy
I'm now in a free Aire just north of Gap, tomorrow I'll head to Grenoble then hit the autoroutes to around Reims, which should leave just a couple of hours to drive on Friday to Calais.
Via the red rock area Cap Roux, and my last sight of the Mediterranean
And some mountains
And the gorge du verdon, didn't stop for pics as all the stopping places were busy
I'm now in a free Aire just north of Gap, tomorrow I'll head to Grenoble then hit the autoroutes to around Reims, which should leave just a couple of hours to drive on Friday to Calais.
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This morning, just north of Gap. I arrived in the dark so had no idea this was there
It feels very autumnal here compared to the full on summer I've left just seemingly hours ago... I've had to put socks on for christ sake! And the heated seat went on this morning too!
It feels very autumnal here compared to the full on summer I've left just seemingly hours ago... I've had to put socks on for christ sake! And the heated seat went on this morning too!
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Looks cracking TallPaul 
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We should be going over for a winter tour of france/spain end of the year as always and definitely know what you mean about driving just a few hours and it changing from summer to winter in the blink of an eye .
Its your 'welcome home weather' .
.We should be going over for a winter tour of france/spain end of the year as always and definitely know what you mean about driving just a few hours and it changing from summer to winter in the blink of an eye .
Its your 'welcome home weather' .
Yep, holiday is very much over now, I'm on the 600km autoroute slog to get most of France done today...Looks cracking TallPaul
We should be going over for a winter tour of france/spain end of the year as always and definitely know what you mean about driving just a few hours and it changing from summer to winter in the blink of an eye .
Its your 'welcome home weather' .
713km today, now in another free Aire in Corbeny, north of Reims. 100km or on the twisties from Gap to Grenoble, then the rest on the autoroutes across France.
I'm just over 2hrs from the port of Calais, I need to be checked in by 2pm so that's basically all the driving done now. Phew! Been a long 2 days of driving.
I'm just over 2hrs from the port of Calais, I need to be checked in by 2pm so that's basically all the driving done now. Phew! Been a long 2 days of driving.
Went to the Shell Garage. Brimed the Sportline 204 with VPower
@cgtmiles is that a cover over the pop top canvas?
Yeah, the little lady thinks it will be cold over night so put on the rainbow screen cover
(Front windows and kitchen window ajar for ventilation though as none though the roof!)
Did saint -Tropez to Coventry many years ago on a motorcycle in one go ,remembering falling asleep riding .
Not good but fun memories
Hope to do it in the van next year
Yeah it's still a bloody long way, even in the van. And the autoroutes are great but trying to conserve fuel and do 100-110kph on them you feel like you're going so much slower than everything else. And doing 130kph means you cover an extra 30km every hour, which is a lot when you're driving for 6 or 7 hours!
Back to the menders today to get the EGR coolant leak rectified. Had a phone call telling me there is a piece of neoprene tubing (?) that is also showing signs of a coolant leak in the same area, and they won't get a new one in till Monday. Good job I wasn't able to find a campsite pitch for this weekend...
