2024 September: France and Spain – St Armand to Laissac

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We wake on the aire de camping cars here at St Armand, it is foggy but the rain has stopped. The fog hangs in thin clouds just above the trees with ghosts of larger trees that look like ethereal beings just drifting along. We breakfast and are away by 9.30, several other units having already left. Pity, because the village looks interesting, but not in torrential rain (or fog).We take A20/N20 south in the direction of Toulouse, a good fast road and stop south of Limoge outside Camping Lanzac where we eat lunch. Camping Lanzac is a municipal Aire; now closed for the winter, it looks like a super location along the Dordogne river.

Back on the A20 again, driving to Figeac where we turn east on N802 along the lovely Lot valley. We count the motorhomes travelling along this road, 40 an hour (only one direction!) and comment on the missed opportunities for motorhome Aires and stopping places. It has stopped raining and the sun is trying to shine, the Lot valley is a lovely road with sheer rock walls on one side and the river on the other. At Bouillac we turn south again, on D840 away from the Lot and a steep climb up and up over the mountain pass to 1006m and Marcelac Vallon; then D27, another narrow mountain road to Montrozier where we drop rapidly down to Chateau Bertholène, well named for its Chateau high above the town. Back on N88, a short drive to Laissac, a total distance today of 186 mls/300km. We find Aire de Camping Car Laissac through the town and behind the cattle market. Again we arrive as the heavens open and another torrent of rain pour down!!

There are only 3 of the 18 pitches free, we park up on one and watch as another 20 motorhomes arrive in the next half hour searching for an empty space! We arrived just in time, all 18 large pitches with grass are all full.

We open wine and watch as the next eight mohos arrive in the pouring rain and find a space by parking parallel to the communal green. Those who arrive later must drive on. We cook the rest of the sausage, write our journals and nip out between downpours to look at our surroundings. The mosquito bites are troublesome, more so than usual.

Photos St Armand in the rain then moving on to Laissac

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