chunky butt wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2019 9:11 am
I'd second that Dave, chartres you can see the spires a long way off, very impressive. If it was me, time depending, have your certain regions you've researched with
poi, but
be flexible, and book your accommodation on a daily basis. Open the map of an evening, weather depending, make a decision.....ish, and head off, its a huge geographically diverse country. Happy days.
sounds daft but i didnt even think of buying a a book with places of interest
.. when i went the first time to france, i did not have a mobile phone as not invented, dont think I even had a map .. but I must surely have? youd think I would remember .. it was only half a century ago
yup .. no tidy map, no camera as not had one, no book of places, no list of campings, no breakdown cover, no repatriation, no spare money, no proper jacket and trousers or boots, just a borrowed leaky thin nylon jacket, no proper camping gear, cant remember taking a tent .. but I must have???? .. unless I slept rough .. scratch head and try to think? …… no full licence, so had to use smaller roads, a real pain when there is no fast distance option …. I had a green card and some French franks .. remember them? .. just got on my battered second hand Suzuki 250 two stroke .. and went .. on my own … I felt SO brave
o .. and it was a ferry crossing at night in a storm
o .. a memory just came back
.. i used the
youth hostels .. and met loads of young people .. but i was in my mid twenties at the time, and considered a mature person at the hostels
... my first stop was in montargis yha .. its all coming back now
