Brian Kirby Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 BGD - 2011-05-26 9:20 AM "Echo all of the above, but the OP describes France as "frogland" ? ? is that why the French seem to ignore us British............" No. That isn't the reason. Really. Doh. It's probably because we don't eat frogs legs, and they can't understand anyone who doesn't. Having recently fulfilled my ambition to try them, I must say I'm with the French. Not a lot of flavour, and a bit like chicken, but definitely OK! Just had to share that with you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertandjean Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 BGD - 2011-06-10 5:28 PM Just got back today from our latest Chug; and wanted to say thank you once again to all the people who replied to this thread with suggestions/recommendations. Quick thoughts which might be helpful to others................ Dordogne region of France: absolutely superb scenery throughout; particularly if you can get off the A roads onto the little windy country/villagy local roads. Utterly lovely. Immensely MH-friendly throughout the whole region......almost every single village has an aire/free overnight parking facility specifically for MH's Great places (in our personal view): La Roque Martel Figerac Saint Cirq la Popie Autoire Cavenac Rocamadour Beynac Padirac (a visit to the caves is an utter MUST, but do get there by about 9.15am, as the queues are ridiculous from about 10am onwards. You can wildcamp for free in one of the cluster of hard-standing car-parks just next to the caves site the night before if you want to, although we stayed at an ACSI site about 10 kms away and nipped to the cave site on our scooter). North Spain coast just before entry into France: San Sebastian. Very good aire there. Also quite impressed with the new-for-2011 ACSI site on the outskirts of Madrid (the first and so far only Madrid-area ACSI site) for Madrid visiting. An old, well established site, mainly permanent mobile homes/chalets; a bit tatty in parts, but perfectly acceptable as a base.....although it's NOT actually in the city; it's about maybe 15kms from the centre of the city, and about 5kms from its outskirts, just off the motorway ring-road, so you need to use the bus stop outside the site to get in to the city, or have your own scooter/other transport. Also there are not many MH/touring caravan pitches there (maybe 50?), so during any busy times of year it'd be a good precaution to ring ahead to check there are pitches free. Not impressed with: Cahors. Grubby. Unattractive. Only 3 MH pitches on the single aire there. Nor with the prices of cafe/bar/restaurant food and drinks anywhere that we visited in France. We found them, as in our previous visit to France last year, very very expensive compared to locally here in Spain....so we ate-in every evening during the French part of our Chug........drank the much-cheaper booze that we took with us from Spain, and took packed lunches/drinks with us when scooting around away from the MH. Our venerable 1992 Arial Autostar performed flawlessly yet again (if somewhat sedately....100kph cruising is about our limit!) and a jolly good time was had. :-D Thanks for info re places and aire at San Sebastian. Agree that many resturants etc are expensive in France but we find that sitting outside a cafe with a coffee, having a glass of wine with the locals in a bar or a nice meal in a resturant is a major part of why we visit France; not to do so because it is more expensive than home would certainly spoil our visits. Also think that if using the aires, which local communities provide for us at cost to them but at no or low cost to us vanners, then not to spend in those communities is not right. When balanced up, together with cheaper fuel costs than U.K., we find eating out etc is affordable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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