Journeying north.

Thursday 11th and Friday 12th 2024.

We try to break each days journey into sections as we are averaging 110 miles a day, we managed to stop at the small town of Mirebeau for lunch.However after lunch we drove straight to the nights stopover at Montreal Bellay, the aire is situated below defensive walls and an impressive Chateua. The fire is next door to a large campsite that only opens fro March to October, I don’t think I would like to stop during those months as I believe it would be rather busy, just behind the aire they are building an aqua centre with numerous outdoor pools.Before our evening meal we went for a walk up into the town.

Today we drove on further north and stopped for a break at La Flèche we stopped here once before many years ago when it was an aire however the motorhome services have been moved to a new site.

After travelling on for a short while we stopped Sables Sur Sarthe for lunch, again we were able to use a motorhome stopover to park up. We walked along the river and into town, it was quite interesting as the town was disected by another river that ran into the Sarthe.

From Sables sur Sarth we drove to tonights stopover at Ambrieres-Les-Vallees a nice picturesque aire below the town alongside the river.

It has been a struggle to produce this blog as over the past two nights we have had poor wifi signal and it is slow going trying to load photos onto the blog.

When we stop on the aires and especially if they are provided free by the local commune we try to spend a little money in the local shops, however since we have returned to France everywhere we have stopped there have been very few shops open. We expect them to be shut from 12,30 t0 2.00 pm and are well used to that but it would appear that on the whole the only shops you are likely to find open are the bakers, butchers, tobacconist and of course hairdressers, very limiting.