Alsace Wine Tour 2023 – Beaulon to Bonny sur Loire

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Motorhome route Beaulon to Briere

We wake on the Halte Nautique near Beaulon, it is a refreshingly cool morning, 9°C but with the blue sky promises another very hot day to come. Breakfast, clear up and service Hymer, emptying and filling at the large, service point and parking area across the road from the Port. This circular place would be fine to stay overnight if all the pitches were taken at the Halte Nautique.

We leave on D15 about 11.00am and call at Intermarché at Decize and stock up with milk, baguette, fruit, salad and vegetables. On D13 past Imphy where we stop for lunch in a lovely tree-shaded layby next to the Canal Lateral de la Loire.

At Nevers we cross the Loire onto A77 and a long drive on a good road to Myennes where we take Dot to the small town of Briare. Here we are hoping to stop on the small Aire de Camping cars next to the Piscine in the centre of town. Alas it is full! We stop anyway and park up in the shade of trees next to the parking area and have lunch, it is very hot.

Back on D2007 and a short drive south to Bonny sur Loire and a short detour to the Aire de camping cars behind the town and next to the Canal de la Cheuille. The access is very narrow and difficult, a narrow cobbled street with tight turns at the town end but with a bit of shunting we manage it.

This motorhome / camping cars aire is a huge grassy area with tree shade all the way along the river bank and some smaller trees in the central oval area, sufficient for about 40 motorhomes (and much nicer than Briare). There are good disposal facilities, but the control panel for water is damaged. About a dozen of us sit out in the shade and enjoy the cool of the evening, drink wine, eat supper and relax.

Later, we walk into the town to explore, the lovely church of Eglise St Aignan, but it is locked. Aignan was the 7th Bishop of Orleans (358–453 AD) revered and renowned for assisting the Roman general Flavius Aetius in the defence of the City of Orleans against Attila the Hun in 451. The same St Aignan who built the lovely old church in Chartres (next to the Cathedral) around 400 AD.

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