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Follow the Yonne Wine Tourism Trail for a great week in Burgundy

13 Jun
The Chablis Wine Region

France is a pretty big country and there are many different areas to explore but you don’t need to drive for miles to see some of the very best of them. The France Motorhome Hire depot is based in one of the most beautiful French regions of all, Burgundy. The wine marketing board have published […]

Explore Beaujolais in a motorhome, but don’t mention the “Nouveau”!

31 Jan
Wine bottle pouring wine into glass on a wine barrel in front of a vineyard

Whilst eating out last week, I was reacquainted with one of my favourite wines, a Morgon from the Beaujolais region. Read on to find out about the ten Beaujolais appellations, where to take a Beaujolais motorhome tour and which Beaujolais is my favourite. (Hint: there’s nothing new about it!) Sadly, Beaujolais is all too often […]

Planning to drive through some French vineyards in your motorhome?

10 Jan
Woman holding huge bunch of black grapes

All the wine, vineyard and motorhome touring tips and insights you’ll ever need for a formidable wine themed visit to France! It’s no secret that the France Motorhome Hire team love wine, vineyards, French countryside and campervans! So, we thought it was time we created a special web page all about touring the wine regions […]

Season’s Greetings from the FMH Team

24 Dec
eiffel tower snowy

Wishing all of our campervan hire customers past, present and future a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thanks to everybody who hired in 2017, we hope to welcome you back another day. To all those who have booked for 2018, we look forward to meeting you soon. Enjoy some French mulled wine […]

Anne and Jerry go camping in Burgundy!

25 Oct

Recent campervan hire clients, Anne and Jerry from the USA, sent us their brilliant diary of their 7-day “camping” trip through Burgundy, which we feel everyone will enjoy and learn from! Over to you Anne & Jerry: This trip report is done from an American’s perspective (desolé pour La Trump)… We’ve camped a lot in […]

Try this Loire Valley wine on your campervan trip, you’ll love it

20 Jul
Chilled Poilly Fumé from the Loire Valley

Though surrounded by Burgundy’s great vineyards, I also have a favourite from the Loire Valley. Taste it and discover its vineyards on a campervan holiday. Being based in Burgundy, one of the world’s most famous wine regions, I tend to write about Burgundian wines pretty relentlessly but for the first seven years of my life […]