France 2025 Day One

We left Portsmouth yesterday morning (29th July) and caught the ferry to Caen and then made our way to our overnight at Camping de Marcilly sur Vienne near the village of Nouatre, south of Tours in La Loire valley. It was just a brief stop as we head towards Le Moulin de Pensol further south. 

I got the Lepiled out for the first time and had a few interesting moths this morning before we packed up and headed on. We stopped off for a walk round the park and lunch at the town of Poitiers and arrived at the magical Le Moulin de Pensol at around 4pm. 

The rather stunning Catocala optata

Pale Shoulder

Pine Processionary

Black V-moth

Ancyclolia tentaculella

Good to be on the road again with the family. Our first stop.