OUR CAMP SITE IN drancourt, FRANCE

The Chateau at Drancourt seen in the late evening. 

Sadly I cannot find any information on the house but I imagine it is 19th possibly even 18th Century. The timber porch across the front looks out of place and may be a later addition. 

Could the center of the house be the original structure with the 'ends' added later? Possible I suppose, the windows and other details around the roof are certainly different.

The house is at the main entrance to the site and looks West over a lawn towards the village, the village itself was very small comprising just a few houses.

Our tent. 

We were located in a good place,arguably one of the best places on the site with a large well defined area, hedges on three sides and sheltered from the East by trees. 

I woke up on more than one occasion in the night to hear owls hooting at each other in the trees.

A Sparrow - One of many to visit our campsite, together with a couple of Chaffinches they made short work of any bread thrown to them.

A farm track heading into the fields near the entrance to the camp site, we had a couple of good evening walks up this track which for a while bordered the campsite on one side with a large field full of potato's on the other. The track soon changes into a stony path which runs out into the countryside. 

Looking across the potato fields, we followed the track to the small wood in the far distance on the left. Due to a lot of harvesters and other vehicles  working in the fields we turned back at this point and headed back.

This is typical of the landscape around where we were staying.

A poppy growing among lumps of flint at the edge of a field.