Marvejols - Friday September 14th 2012

Friday September 14^th 2012

Very cold this morning. We used motorways and toll roads today, boring but quicker and easier. Splendid views on the mountain roads but a lot of steep climbs and I have no confidence in the car. One eye on the scenery, another on the dashboard looking for flashing lights. We stopped at a really weird services, Aire les Megaliths, where the lower car park was full of standing stones and the higher one was adjacent to a field of beautiful alpine cattle.

We arrived at the campsite about 4pm. It was difficult to find and the only access is through the town, which has narrow and twisty streets. It’s worth the effort – a lovely site alongside a small but fast flowing mountain stream. The pitches are shaded and big. The town is picturesque – we didn’t have time to explore but would like to return.

 

Camping Municipal

Marvejols

48100 Lozere

Electricity is only 5 amps

13 euros per night

Châtel-de-Neuvre - Thursday September 13th 2012

Thursday September 13^th 2012

Rained good style in the night to it was muddy and horrible for hitching up etc. Our Dutch neighbours came to wish us bon voyage. 

Camping Deneuvre

03500 Châtel-de-Neuvre

12 euros per night, electricity only 6 amps.

 

We came here in good time on easy roads. It’s a quaint little campsite by a river. We walked into town through a maize field. The cobs were ripe but had gone to starch so no point pinching a couple for dinner. They’re probably for cattle feed. We bought some postcards and sat in a bar to write them.

There was no electricity when we got back. Kim fiddle about for a while before he saw sense and went to Reception. Somebody came along and fixed it. It would seem the French people next door had overloaded the system but they weren’t owning up to it.  I had to use the sit-on-the-stove kettle.