Euro tour Part 4

We left Moreilles and headed North ish to Pete & Vicky's place which was only an hour away, we stopped often just to waste time which was fine, the usual hassle to find places that are in the back of beyond, GPS's aren't the answer to everything and neither is Google when coverage is sketchy but find it we Did. Pete and Vicky are well known in the Guzzi world, purveyors of second hand spares trading as Reeboot Guzzi, they also run a B&B in their restored farmhouse which is very impressive (In Google as Fortified Farm) and Vicky and Pete are excellent cooks so you never go hungry. Our friends Sue and Martin are regulars and they kept telling us to visit, just sorry we took so long to get there.

Its a very nice area to base yourself, they have rooms including a Dorm if that's your thing as well as camping and hookups for motorhomes. A great place for a small Rally or for anything really, I cant recommend it highly enough and they speak good English even though they are from Plymouth..

Two days there and a small run to Vouvant, a nice medieval City and worth a visit. The hospitality was first class and I wished I'd had the van so I could have stocked up with Guzzi bits!

Hanging around

Still hanging around (Brewing up tea)

Pete and Vicky's place

Nice building

Set for Dinner Al Fresco

Vouvant war memorial

The Keep which seems to be a bird house now

Castle walls

Fiona up the steps

Surrounded by a river

Cool old town

Ready to eat again

Bikes at rest

Fi at rest

Enjoying the company!

We left with the dark clouds forming which became heavy rain, Pete phoned us that night to ask how we got on, the weather never came to anything at their place but I'm glad to say we took the rain for them! Fiona had booked us into a Caravan in a campsite which was excellent with a view of a very swollen Loire, the sun came out when we arrived and that gave a chance to dry everything including the helmets which were soaking inside! The pain was made bearable by an excellent 6 Euro bottle of wine from the Camp shop! 

On the Thursday we set off for Caen, in fact past Caen to Ouistreham, it was busy around Caen but Ouistreham was quiet, a nice place to spend a day before we got the Ferry at 11.30pm on the Friday. There were a few groups of migrant youths going around which gave the place a bit of an edge but apart from a group trying to intimidate us which obviously failed it was OK.

Ferry docked at 6am in Portsmouth Saturday and we managed to get North of Birmingham before it was too busy eventually arriving at the Buccleuch Hotel in Moffat for our last night.

All good things come to an end and this was no exception, a wonderful trip and for us a lowly 2500 Miles, great times , great people, cant wait to start planning the next one .

Bloody wet

And the sun is out

River looked full

Wine and sunset

Ouistreham fishing boat

Fi sight seeing

Our neighbours

D Day celebrations

This couple had been down to Magny- Cours for a scooter rally

Weird 

Having a coffee

Getting dark as we queue for the boat

Parked in the Buccleuch

Heading home soon