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La Bastide Puylaurent.

I think there is more than one campsite in La Bastide but I've stayed twice now in the one that is just out of town south on the D6.  It's great.  Nice clean and very friendly site with a small bar/restaurant attached and the owners couldn't be nicer, very helpful and the food is excellent.

This is the pitch I had, just next to the river that runs along the side of the site, which is, you guessed it, the Allier!

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Host and Hostess

A pity my photo has come out blurred but you get the idea, happy smiling hosts who just make you feel at home.  And that's not even to start to mention the superb mushroom omelettes that they make, with fresh wild mushrooms they pick.

So, I got my washing done, had a demi-pêche, then the set meal with my usual petit pichet de rosé.  Actually when the cheese arrived once again I was given a pichet of red wine to eat it with, it's obviously important in France.  It was good cheese, I said that it was as good as many English cheeses, jokingly of course, to which he simply said 'haagh'.

There was an interesting parallel story going on back in England.  Pippa had rescued a seagull with an injured wing and was keeping the bird in a cardboard box in the house, waiting for the RSPB to come and take it away.  I was trying to translate and explain this drama of girl and bird to the owner.

I think that seagull is mouette which I pronounced as mouyette I think it was, which the guy explained is actually dippy egg with soldiers.  Anyway, the cause of much laughter, english woman rescues dippy egg.