We have been lucky to find a nice
couple who actually work on the site to look after, or keep watch, on our
caravan whilst we are away. The weather in this part of France can suddenly
conjure up an amazing storm and so it was great to know that somebody would be
watching out.
We left Larnagol around 0930 and
decided to try what was apparently the quicker route to the motorway and if
successful we would come this way again on the way home with the caravan. It
was a very windy road with a reasonable amount of traffic and it took some time
to reach the motorway and then drive up to Junction 56 which we usually use .
The traffic was quite heavy today as its almost the start of the French
holidays and as we headed North to Brive the traffic on the southbound
carriageway was far worse and after Brive there was a traffic jam southbound of
about six miles. It was shortly after
passing Brive that we suddenly remembered the electric lights that we had
carried all over France for Noels sister which we were to drop off had been
left in the caravan, blast!!. We are not going back as it would take far too
long in this traffic and so they will have to wait a little longer to receive
them.
Up past Limoges and on to Chateroux
before heading North West towards Tours.
We were also planning on this route to check out potential caravan sites
for our return journey and the first one was a in a town called Buzancais where
there was supposed to be a nice municipal site and it looked very nice. We then
went on to a town called Loches which had a larger site with all mod cons you could think of but it was crowded and
with lots of Brits, not for us we thought. It was now quite hot at around 35 C
and we thought that we should look for a Hotel and settled on going to Tours
where we stayed in a an air conditioned Kyriad down town. After a shower we went for a walk and a beer
or two on the sun and then found an Italian restaurant from Trip Advisor and so
had a good meal there and a nice glass of plonk. We walked around the town after dinner and
then went back to the Hotel as it was still pretty hot and after all the
driving, eating and drinking thought we would have an early night.
