Spring 2014: to Poland

Start: Wed May 14^th

Disaster on the first day! Our friends Trish and Paul have a tyre blow-out on the way to meet us. This was no ordinary blow-out: the tyre shredded and ripped off essential pipework attached to the underside of the motorhome. It also gouged a two-foot-by-one hole in the camper floor.

We are nearly at Folkestone, where we planned to meet, when we get their phone call. They are north of Peterborough and waiting for breakdown recovery to be towed back home to Bradford. Looks like the end of their holiday, but maybe not. We talk later, and agree that Jane and I will carry on to the first planned stop and await their repairer’s report.

So now we’ve arrived at this first destination, near Troyes in France. The site is in a regional park with three big lakes, and the weather is fine. We really don’t mind resting up here for a while!

Here’s an idea of what it’s like, with an artificial beach on the shore of the lake nearest the site, 300 yards away.

Nice walks too on all-weather walking/cycling tracks, even if some of the cyclists seem to use it in Tour de France practice mode!

 

The local village of Geraudot has many picturesque half-timbered houses and a good number of semi-derelict ancient dwellings being done up, as in the photo. The satellite disk looks kind of out of place.

Even the church has timber framing at the entrance making it look rather like a barn, but it is 12^th Century and this was the local building method of the day.