France – averybigadventure

Building dens and making friends

Biscarosse gave us our first proper taste of beach van life.

After three weeks spent inland and a long journey across France, this family of beach bums were ready to be reunited with the coast.

Jim described La Roque-Gageac as 'Disney meets the Cotswolds' (I wonder if the Dordogne tourist board fancy that one?)

Beaulieu means, literally, 'beautiful place' and I can't think of a better description.

On Monday 5 August we left the Alps and started our journey towards the coast.

Once the Tour was over we headed back to Tignes. We could finally start to relax properly.

One of the main reasons for starting our year-long adventure in Tignes was the Tour de France stage due to finish there on Friday 26th July.

Our ferry arrived in Calais around 8.15pm French time on Tuesday evening.

A week ago Jim and I said goodbye to the house we've lived in for nearly ten years and moved our family into a campervan.