Camping Le Daxia

We reluctantly left Camping Manjastre on Saturday morning.   We arose early, packed the caravan up so that it could be put back into storage, went for our last swim, and said our goodbyes, just temporarily of course, because we will be back again in August.

Then we carefully pushed in the left hand mirror of the van before we set out onto the St Tropez road.   Now you might wonder why we pushed in our mirror, as it is crucial for seeing anything that may overtake us.  But we decided that I could keep an eye out of the window on this short stretch of road, rather than lose yet another wing mirror.  Yes this wing mirror had been hit twice by trucks in the 10 days we ventured out onto this road, and in the end we replaced it, £300 worth as it is a very large mirror, plus blinker system.   And we had only had the mirror replaced before we left on the trip, due to other mishaps.   The road, by the way is extremely narrow, and our wing mirror stretches over the middle line of the road.   It is scary to venture too close to the edge of the road, due to a deep ditch running along edge.  And we have seen cars, on a lean, stranded in the ditch.   

Our first 'bouchon', in English that is 'tailback' or 'car queue'.   I like the word 'bouchon', as it sounds so much more dramatic than 'car queue' but unfortunately it still entails a long wait.    In this case the 'bouchon' occurred just after our motorway met up with the motorway from Nice, and just before the tolls.   

 Now this truck and van had a bit of a altercation, due to both wanting to change lanes at the same time.

 And the next services was packed with cars and people, so we did not stop here for lunch.

 But luckily the traffic thinned out again after Aix en Provence and we sped on towards our stop for the night at a lovely campsite, quite a distance from the motorway, but not far from the Rhone River.    Camping Le Daxia, close to St Clair-du-Rhnone.   A CC or Camping Card ACSI campsite (Dutch), which we are a member of, so we get a discount.

 It is a very friendly and attractive site, with mature trees and hedges.   Each site is enclosed by trees or hedges.    And the sun was still shining, although the heat that we experienced in the Cote D'Azur was not there.

And then off the Pizzeria, conveniently just outside the campsite, for cheap and very good pizzas.