Not that we’re stuck in a rut or anything, but we actually called in to Parc naturel régional de la Brenne twice during our 2012 spring trip to France. The first occasion was for a single night on our way south.…

Continuing our unusually slow trek back north during our 2012 spring trip to France, we called in at another favourite haunt of ours: the Marais Poitevin. A marais is a marsh and, rather like the Somerset levels, this French marsh…

View Dragonfly Sites, France in a larger map La tourbe is French for peat and les tourbières are peat diggings. Les Tourbières de Vendoire lie in the Périgord vert region near the small village of Vendoire, north-west of the gastronomically…

This area holds a special place in our hearts because of a delightful campsite on a dairy sheep farm run by an equally delightful French couple, Luc and Nadine Vialaret. The campsite is perched beside farmer Luc’s irrigation lake, created…

Our first major hunting stop during our 2012 6-week French excursion was le Loir, being a masculine tributary of the better known female, La Loire. More precisely, we stayed at a very pleasant camping municipal, camping-de-la-Chabotiere, at Luché-Pringé. This was…