Once off the ferry its straight on to the A26 motorway, heading south towards Châteauroux for one or two nights on the way to the Dordogne, this year we have not bothered to book any sites, we will just see how it goes. We have however researched the areas we are going to and have some sites provisionally picked out.
Soon on the A1 heading for Paris but about 2 hours into the drive, we are very tired, so we pull over into an Aire for a couple of hours rest. Then its back on the road, I will never go anywhere near Paris again as long as I live (unless we are actually going to Paris), we got stuck in traffic on the A3 and A86/A4 for over two hours. Eventually got on to the A10 and back up to speed, all was going well until Orléans, when we managed to miss a slip road and did not get off the A10 onto the A71. The first place we could have turned to get back was quite a long way, so we just turned off the motorway, reprogrammed AutoRoute and set off to rejoin the A71 further south. We where still tired and when we passed a campsite on the edge of a town by a river, we thought about stopping there but carried on. About three kilometres down the road, I pulled over and as I was worn out, we agreed to turn back and stop there for the night.
The town was Beaugency and the river, the Loire, the campsite is on the opposite side of the river to the town next to the bridge. There is an Aire opposite the campsite in the town over the river but this always looked to be very full and very cramped, and the municipal was only about £7.00/night.
 | Beaugency Camping Municipal du Val de Flux Route de Lailly-en-Val, 45190 Beaugency Web Site |
Went over to the bar for a drink that night but then a karaoke started, so we went back to the van and watched the sunset over the town (something you can not do from the Aire), we had an early night, very tired after a long day.
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