France & Spain October 2025 - October 21st

October 21st

Today's trip was Oradour-sur-Glane to Veuzain sur Loire. It is only around 125 miles between the two. Incredibly on mostly one road, although each department changed the first number! It's either the D675 or the D975.....

It is about halfway between our start point in Oradour and the vet in Buchy. 

Reggie is booked in again at a vet we have used in the past a few times for his worming pill and passport stamped. 

Our first stop at Bellac where is seems all the supermarkets are around one roundabout! We chose Carrefour over Intermarché as the fuel station was cheapest. 

Our tank was showing we only had around 120 miles range left of our last Spanish diesel. 

Here diesel was €1.495, the cheapest we have seen so far since crossing the border. That equates to around £1.309 according the Halifax Clarity. Cheaper than at home!!!

We did a little shopping. Fresh bread. It's hard to beat proper French 🥖 bread. 

Lunch was had up the road around 1pm. We hadn't seen many picnic areas. The one we found is on park4night. It was at Martizay (https://park4night.com/en/place/118402).

Onwards to Veuzain.  The CCP aire is a few hundred metres from the Loire.  Once through the barrier we could see there was only one van already parked up. One side of the aire is grass,  the other gravel hardstanding.  

After so much rain, and more forecast, it was the gravel for us. 

We had a walk to find the viewpoint from this back across to Chaumont sur Loire where there's a large imposing chateau.

Sadly on this trip we aren't able to visit any, but we can always come back.

Dinner was in again and  I was able to watch most of Arsenal beating Atletico Madrid 4-0 in the Champions League on Amazon Prime. The firestick working off my phone as there's no WiFi on site.

Tomorrow? North via the N10 and Chartres and Rouen to the vet.