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OUR CAMP SITE IN drancourt, FRANCE

26/9/2013

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. 
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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.
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A poppy growing among lumps of flint at the edge of a field.
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    My interest in ships and the sea started back in 2006 when I worked for a couple of years  on the banks of the River Mersey. I have since been on a couple of cruises around the Med and in the Far East and have started to take more interest in researching and photographing some of the ships and other vessels seen on my travels.

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