Chauvigny

September 23 - 24 aftr Camping Municipal la Fontaine for a 2 night stop, as it was time to get some washing done. Its not that we run out of clean clothes, Jeannette packs enough for a small platoon, but the washing bag gets too large to be managable and the washing can end up larger than 1 wash and drying can be a real headache. Chauvigny is a small town with an interesting Medieval centre, well worth spending time looking round wich we did on the second afternoon after a morning on the Velorail!
The Velorail is one of our favorite thing to do in France, climb on board a railway trolley that one cycles up a, usualy, dissused track and race or coast back down, depending if you want to use the brakes. Chauvigny is, as I have mentioned has a picturesque old medieval centre peched on a hill.

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