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For 31 years the dates of our visits to France were constrained by the UK school holidays. We became experts at extracting every possible hour away from the holidays (finish work at 4pm, leave for the ferry at 6pm, get home at 1.00 am to start work at 9 the same morning - that sort of thing). And of course having to cross the channel made travel times much longer.
Now it's a bit different, the garden and visitors from the UK (most of whom are constrained by the UK school holidays) mean that in July and August we are pretty much tied to La Basse Cour. It does mean we can take advantage of good weather out of this period like we've had this week and nip off with the caravan to the Loire Valley. Crammed with visitors in July and August it's nearly empty at the end of May, perfect for visiting Angers, Saumur and cycling the impressive Loire a Vélo cycle route. Like last year in Arcachon we've found the campsites less than 10% full and pitched up at a basic site in Gennes where we can see the mighty Loire river from our caravan and have all of one end of the site to ourselves:
And the weather was perfect for an early start to ride 16km to Saumur on the Rive Droite, look round the old town and castle perched above the Loire, have a beer in the sun and a sandwich and ride back to Gennes along the Rive Gauche. Appropriately enough Barbara is riding the bike she got as a retirement present.
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