Parked Up – Just South of Bordeaux 🚐
Tonight’s stop: a quiet patch just south of Bordeaux. The kind of place that feels halfway between somewhere and nowhere — and exactly where we need to be. The van’s cooling down, the soup’s gone, and the kids are somewhere between giggling and full-scale feral. Xaiana’s trying to feed the grass, Beyla’s found a stick she’s convinced is magic, and Wolfrik’s already halfway up something he shouldn’t be. We’ve got Camembert, baguette crumbs, and the faint smell of diesel and adventure in the air. It’s not glamorous. It’s not planned. But it’s ours. We’re two days ahead of schedule, about 90 miles from Spain, and a million miles from where we started 90 days ago. This is the bit I love most - the in-between. The rolling, the resetting, the tiny freedoms that make it all worth it.