Valras-Plage was a ghost town. I had spent the night camped in rhe car park of the Hélios campsite, as the campsite was ferméd. The restaurant that the internet said was open, turned out to be a pile of sticks in the sand on the beach. I eventually tracked down the only restaurant that was […]

Minty Tours has arrived at the Mediteranean!   At 18.30, Happy and I reached the wind-swept beach at Farinette, south of Vias.   Thunder and lightening started the day in Conas; just south of Pézinas. Then it has rained most of the day, sometimes as intense rainstorms. The campsites here are all closed for the […]

After a night of torrential rain and a feeling that some might have got under the zip of the flysheet into the tent. Collected my 2 croissants and 2 baguettes at the reception and downed the croissants with a coffee. Headed into Fontès. Bought a Camembert at the boucherie. Established thst the only place to […]

After thanking John & Di for the best Christmas Dinner EVER, I managed to set off just before 10AM. My route is to head directly south for the coast. I followed a pipeline up into the hills, then promptly lost the good trails, as those marked on my map wete obviously out of favout with […]

Today everyone was slow to rise. Except Happy, who URGENTLY needed the bathroom at 8:15 and stuck her big node in my face. A trip to Moureze was plannwd  John and adi took 2 cars round snd one back, tben we wslked across. Had a great lunch, then Trish and I walked back, taking in […]

At last! We reached the Med! Admittedly by car over the last 60k! Aftet another croissant breakfast, kindly  provided after an early morning croissant run by John, the Xmas dinner party of Sheila, Peter, Trish and myself, piled into John’s VW van. We headed for the beach south west of Montpellier. We had a brief […]

Today is Christmas Dinner. Today is the reason that this website was created. The festive spirit built up gradually. Starting with re-arranging chairs and tables in the garden patio area; then placing the tiny live Christmas treee in its pot on a small table in front of the doorway to the entrance door, so that […]

Surfaced politely at 8.30 and after breakfast John and I walked down to the lake. After a salad-filled lunch, I collapsed in a chair. Sbeila and Peter arrived. I collapsed for a snooze. Topsy hobbling on right foot. Very sociable evening meal  with local produce and John cooking a wonderful meal on his barbecue griddle or […]

Pottered around on the internet first thing, to ensure that people knew my plans for the day: to reach Liausson. We were camped on the opposite side of the valley from the ruins of Château de Malaveille which sat perched like a pimple on a massive outcrop of granite. Despite there being a myriad of […]

I made a mistake leaving Bédereux, and took thr wrong trail. So we did 5k instead of 2k. The climb up the hill to Carlencas seemed endless. The 12th century church tower of St. Martins loomed over the landscape here like St. Edward’s Tower does in Stow-on-the-Wold. A kind lady called Lucy gave me some […]