In August 1978 the Lomas family travelled to Lisbon and back on a camping holiday.
We left Ripley on a Saturday morning and caught an over night ferry to Normandy. On Sunday we drove south through France to the well known resort of St Etienne. The idea was to go round Paris on the Boulevard Peripherique but when we saw the Arc de Triomphe we realised we had taken a wrong turn and it was raining.
It rained all day, all night and next morning so we had to pack up a wet tent in the rain. We didn't see the St Etienne trams - it was just too wet. We pressed on southwards and fortunately the sun came out at Aviginion and we hardly saw any more rain.
1. The south coast of France and the first time we had seen the Mediterranean Sea.
We left Ripley on a Saturday morning and caught an over night ferry to Normandy. On Sunday we drove south through France to the well known resort of St Etienne. The idea was to go round Paris on the Boulevard Peripherique but when we saw the Arc de Triomphe we realised we had taken a wrong turn and it was raining.
It rained all day, all night and next morning so we had to pack up a wet tent in the rain. We didn't see the St Etienne trams - it was just too wet. We pressed on southwards and fortunately the sun came out at Aviginion and we hardly saw any more rain.
1. The south coast of France and the first time we had seen the Mediterranean Sea.
2. The next day we headed inland to Andorra which seemed like one long traffic jam.
3 & 4. The following day we explored Andorra finding snow.
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