Vouvray next, but en route, we discovered a fab little Aire at the village of St. Georges sur Cher, with free electric hook-up and a borne for fresh water and for dumping waste water. It also had something we hadn’t seen before on an aire. Beside each marked off parking space, there was space designated an outside table and chairs. So much for the usual “no camping behaviour”. Anyway, having gratefully hooked up, we wandered into the village which had a boulangerie, restaurant, supermarket and other shops. All closed for lunch, except the restaurant. If we hadn’t plans to go to Vouvray, we’d have maybe stayed overnight.
In February we’d bought the fizzy and some white wine for Louise and Luke’s wedding and it was so good we wanted to restock the fizzy area of the wine fridge and to report to M. Guertin just how well his wines had been received. The free aire in Vouvray has capacity for 3 vans and there were already 4 on our arrival. However, we’d read reviews stating there had been up to 10 vans during the Summer. We ensured we weren’t getting in anyone’s way and parked up as “overflow”.
Vouvray is a lovely village with handy wine shops and a supermarket as well as smaller independent shops. There’s also a rather good Italian restaurant so we nipped across the road for a couple of takeaway pizzas.
Our return to Guertin’s resulted in just a few more bottles being purchased, certainly not enough for a wedding this time, though.
A couple more vans arrived during the evening and none were moved on so as Andrew says “where would you be if no-one was obeying the rules ?” France!