We spent a week at Camping de Vaubarlet in the crossover between May and June and its location is peace & quiet personified. Our welcome by the Vignes family was good as we were invited to select a pitch and to set ourselves up for the week. The owners are in only their second season of operating the site and work hard at making improvements to the site and providing a good base for the visitor to the area. The facilities are maintained well, although at this time of year the whole site was not yet up and running. There is some stunning scenery around the area when thinking of the volcanic shapes left many millenia ago! Le Puy-en-Velay is worth making to journey to see with its church and statue on two such rock formations. There is also the Gorges of the Loire and a hidden gem near to the south of Le Puy-en-Velay, a waterfall which drops some 27m from its summit to the rocks and plunge pool beneath at Cascade de la Beaume. The Loire also has its source in this area ... where it begins its journey to the Bay of Biscay at St Nazaire.