Roque de Val to Montblanc

You don't believe me do you? Well I Was surprised too! There is a Montblanc in the country between Beziers and Montpellier. It's not much of a mountain and it's not white, but otherwise very pleasant. But back to earlier.



Friday morning was overcast and as we finished breakfast we heard thunder, so we started to load the car and hitch up; of course it started to rain. Having had years of experience of this sort of thing we naturally morphed into English summer holiday mode- anoraks and umbrellas- It took about an hour to complete everything and then go to say goodbye to Jill and Dave. It also stopped raining.



We hadn't planned where to stop, but we had talked about where to go and it was felt that a place with loads of campsites would be popular, but likely to have the odd placement free. And that the first port of call should be the tourist office. I thought we could reach Beziers by 4pm the time we decided was best to start looking. Tourist offices are usually in the centre of town with parking 3km away, or underground- not much good with a 20ft long 10ft high carapace. Beziers is not much different the T.O is in the centre via some very slender one way streets and tight corners reminiscent of medieval towns, but we found it and two free parking places . I think they were parking places because there was a curb with no cars attached. The T.O was very helpful, we now had a list of local campsites, some with details. We drove to the first one we liked COMPLET they didn't say so at the entrance I had to walk 200m to find out. Bloody annoying. Second choice ditto. We were heading towards Agde and Sete, I was getting concerned because our side of the road was OK , but going the other way was a solid traffic jam for 20 kms. If we couldn't find a place it might take hours to get back out. At the third failure I said we had to start phoning all the sites. Eventually Nicky got a yes 17km away, but back the way we had come!! I have a Tom Tom Sat Nav so I keyed in quickest route and up popped the one I knew was jammed so I keyed alternative missing road block and off we went into the centre of Agde the roads got narrower and eventually there was a warning that the opening was 2.4m The caravan is 2.3m so I had the choice back up down an incredibly narrow and twisty road for 200m go on or cry. 'Big boys don't cry' We got through just fine and then the choice was not a choice; the way the sat nav wanted us to go was even narrower, but we took an alternative, exciting certainly, but possible.



Two hours later we found the site at Mont blanc and it is very nice. Shady with sunny spots. The lanes in the site area bit narrow and I managed to block a French man who wanted to come in and one who wanted to go out this turned out to be a great ploy. I unhitched the van and told them we had site 55; in seconds people appeared and suddenly the van was in place lined up etc. Perfect. I must remember to get in their way again. Stupide Beefteck.