Back in France and back in a motorhome. As the golden fields of corn pass us by and we navigate through the small villages built right on the edge of the road, it feels so familiar.
As the first boulangerie enters my line of sight, I feel right at home. Wherever we go, whatever we do, travelling through France in a motorhome is akin to being in our happy place. We highly recommend it. As is usually the case when we are in a motorhome, there are very few plans. We have a start and end date, but not much more.
Apart from a tour booked in at the Remy Martin House of Cognac, and a desire to include both Bordeaux and Roquefort , the rest of the time was completely flexible. The map below has been put together to understand the direction we drove and the locations we visited during our day road trip. There are various ways of driving through this area but as a general rule, we avoid the large motorways. We usually use them if we are in a hurry, but to give you a sense of how often we used them, on this trip, it was only twice and for a relatively short period.
To clarify further, these were A roads, but not toll roads. When you are up on the big motorways you can miss out on so much. Built to make road transport more efficient, they serve many purposes well, but assisting slow travel is not one of them.
If we spent all of our time on these roads, we would miss the beauty of the villages that you will see below. Hidden amongst the red map markers below is a blue one. We then traveled in an almost circular, anti-clockwise direction. Day one is all about the pickup and so this is an overnight stop only. Pickups for the motorhome are in the afternoon. By the time we do the handover and go and get our supplies to stock up the vehicle, we always find it easier to stay somewhere close by.
