Wednesday 13th December
When we planned our route south through France we decided to keep off busy main roads and see as much of a part of France we hadn’t seen before. Yesterday we drove 134 miles via Vitre to La Pertre, and today’s route although seemingly not too direct was in fact shorter and we covered a total of 173 miles today.
A huge section of the roads we travelled on today were as we often picture French roads, long and straight going on and on to the horizon, speed is limited to 50 mph and every so often you arrive in a village or small town where the speed is restricted to 20 mph. We aimed for a town called Cholet for our lunchtime stopover.
After lunch we walked approx a mile into town where our first stop was the pharmacy, I managed to convey my needs in French and bought a bottle of cough medicine, a packet of cold and flu tablets and some menthol vapour rub for Michelle. The town looked very pleasant and had large suburbs and edge of town commerce, we didn’t stay too long as we didn’t have much time to spare.
The latter part of our journey was along some narrower roads thus slower and it was turning dark as we pulled into the camp site at Brioux Sur Boutonne, at first we were on our own but later one more camper van arrived.
There was a lot of flooding in the fields as we travelled along and the camp site on the edge of the river was no different about one third of it was under water.
One amusing thing we have seen on our travels over the past two days is town/village name signs as you enter and leave are turned upside down. Michelle turned to Google and found out it was the work of farmers protesting against the Government . The French know how to protest Eh!
taraabit 