Welcome to the Grahams on Tour

65 miles, 26.9 mpg As Fiona and I are both great fans of Germany (we lived there a couple of times - once in Munich and the other in Berlin) so decided we'd head to Aachen, which is somewhere we'd passed by many times but have never actually visited. With the weather being a lot colder (close to zero overnight) we're burning through our gas quickly but found a motorway services with LPG so were able to refill our Gaslow system. The only real option for overnighting was the St

249 miles, 24.1 mpg Continuing north we decided to head to Luxembourg - to the bit of it very close to the borders with Belgium and Germany. We found a small campsite that was still open - it was pretty decent and in the summer would have had a lot more facilities open, however this late in the season there weren't enough people to justify having the bar etc. open. The facilities were pretty good though, and it was almost walking distance to the German border. We did a bit of

96 miles, 25.4 mpg After Giveny we decided to head to a campsite we'd used many times before in the forest east of Paris, called Les 4 Vents. It's a lovely site, with big grassy pitches, and a nice place to relax for a couple of nights. Other than some grocery shopping and some walking locally we didn't do much else while we were there, and decided to give visiting Paris a miss this time as we've been before many times. While a very nice site it was noticeable that at nearly

105 miles, 23.7 mpg Monet is a favourite artist of both Fiona and I so one of the places we'd wanted to visit on this trip was his house at Giverny. As it turns out motorhomes are allowed to overnight in the car-park there were skirted Paris (never fun) and headed up there in time to purchase tickets for the new day. We'd read online that bus trips often arrive quite early in the morning so getting in before it was gets busy was a good idea if you wanted decent photo's, and g

324 miles, 21.3 mpg With time fast running out on our trip there was a need to continue to head north so we decided to put a good few miles in and head to an Aire we know and like at the medieval town of Provins, to the east of Paris. Provins is normally a paid Aire, with someone from the local tourist office coming round in the morning to take the payment (which is 8EUR I think). What I always find amusing is that there are often quite a few vans in the Aire overnight but pr

204 miles, 25.6 mpg From Lourdes there was only really one place we were going to go next and that was to what's probably Fiona's favourite town in France - Sarlat. We've been here several times before and really liked it, so were looking forward to visiting again. Previously we'd uses sites further out of the town however this late in the year they were closed so we decided to give the Huttopia site a try, and that proved to be a good choice - with an easy walk into town (al

327 miles, 23.9 mpg Leaving the Aire at Asco it was a long and gentle climb up into the Pyrenees to get to Andorra, somewhere neither Fiona or I had been to before. The scenery on the drive was lovely and I've marked the Pyrenees down as yet another place to spend more time exploring once we have time. Crossing the border into Andorra the first thing you see is a long line of petrol stations, with the cheapest fuel we'd see on the trip anywhere expect Gibraltar (which was sim

278 miles, 23.9mpg It was with a heavy heart that we left Santa Pola as we'd been very tempted to just stay and spend the winter there! With hindsight we should probably have stayed another week as we weren't really ready for the shock of the colder weather when we headed north and, with 2 weeks left before we had to be back in the UK, using one of those weeks in the sun would have been great! Anyway we headed off towards another of those locations that had been penciled in f

210 miles, 26.1mpg On leaving Granada we decided to head for a site we'd located via our ACSI book in the town of Santa Pola, just to the south of Alicante. This involved a nice drive on good roads through the Spanish hills, passing many, many farms growing citrus fruits. Arriving at the campsite was a bit of a surprise as pretty much all the other sites we'd been to so far were mostly empty, but this one was very close to full. The reason for this was that it's very popular

163 miles, 24.1mpg After Gibraltar we didn't really have a clear idea of where we wanted to go next so basically just drove along the coast for a bit, through places like Marbella, before deciding to head a bit further inland to what looked like a nice site near Granada. The small site was nice and was very helpful in trying to get us tickets for The Alhambra however that was fruitless and there was no chance of tickets even if we hung around for a few days. Lesson learned -