![]() ![]() Across country to join the A20 motorway, past Limoges and Chateauroux and then onto the D2020 to Salbris and Camping de Sologne. OK if you just want to visit the village but I would rather pay a few more euros and enjoy the site which takes ACSI cards and so isn’t too expensive out of high season.Īfter three nights at Beaulieu we only had a week of our trip left so we continued north. It looked pretty basic with a pay machine and not much in the way of views. (GPS 44.97738º 1.84196º) That gives you a back way in to the site.Īs I mentioned before, there is an Aire de Camping-Car just outside the site and along side the ‘back road’. That entrance is off the D12 and past the Aire de Camping-Car under the high road bridge that crosses the river. ![]() There is another side entrance, which we later found, with has no restrictions. We just scrapped through, literally, as the satellite dish was just touching the wood work. The approach needs some care if you are in a high vehicle as not only do you need to negotiate the narrow street from the village centre but there is a 3m high footbridge at the site entrance. GPS 44.97957º 1.84196º) is on an island in the Dordogne and right beside the lovely old village of Beaulieu. Ĭampground Huttopia at Beaulieu sur Dordogne (ex Camping des îles. Our next stop was at a site recommended a couple of years ago by our caravanning friends Jenny & John. With thunder storms all around we were lucky to miss them all but after four lovely days the forecast started to look a bit dodgy so we continued our way north. Lac de Pareloup is about 2500ft high in the hills and so the weather can be changeable to say the least. With the weekend approaching and good weather we expected the aire to be really busy but there was loads of room with only about 15 out of 70 plus pitches taken. We have been there several times and it is now firmly on our ‘favourites’ list. Just short of the Millau Viaduct we turned west and through the hills to Lac de Pareloup (GPS 44.20027º 2.77601º) and its lovely aire on the steep banks of the lac. Leaving Homp we drove through the extensive Minervois vines heading for Beziers and the A75 towards Millau. We were now starting to slowly head north and home. Regular readers, if there are any left, might recall that we had got as far as the Canal du Midi at Homp after our drive south through the Ardeche and spending some time by the Med. Meeting an old mate and fellow Vulcan Volunteer, ‘Shackers’, at RIAT I was forcibly reminded to get on and complete the blog. Once we got home the garden had reverted to a poor imitation of jungle and sorting that out plus the other necessities of life seemed to take over. If you're visiting, don't go direct to the site - get your tickets in town first.Ok, OK, I know the blog hasn’t been updated for ages but once again an acute attack of laziness overtook me. There's an aire in Montignac, which is where you have to book tickets at the tourist office for the Lascaux II cave art reconstruction just up the road. The rural life museum nearby is worth a look. The aire in the park at Le Bugue is a bit different - literally in the town park among trees, very pleasant. We've also stopped at the Perigueux aire but didn't stay overnight as we'd exhausted the town's possibilities in an afternoon. Sarlat le Caneda has a smallish tarmac aire at the top end of the town which is handy for a stopover but near a road.Īt Saint Cyprien there's a tiny aire in what is basically a municipal car park - there are nicer ones elsewhere. Decent sized grassy plots rather than gravel or tarmac, near the Vezere river. ![]() Les Eyzies de Tayac Sirieul has one of our favourite aires, mainly because of all the surrounding prehistory. I'm pretty certain you can overnight in the car park behind the chateau at Castelnaud la Chapelle. La Roque-Gageac aire is literally a stone's throw from the river itself.īeynac et Cazenac just down the road has a MH tolerant overnight parking area a little way up the hill from the main street, and an interesting chateau.
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