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Published: April 28th 2017
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Day 3 – Les Islettes to St Croix en Plein What a cold night! It was somewhat unexpected and hard to believe that it is April. The wind even chilled the sheets on the bed making them cool to the touch. We shivered all night under our bedclothes. Even in the morning with the heating on in Suzy we shivered. We were woken up to the sound of birdsong coming from the trees in the wood next door. The church bells rang out. All our neighbours were abed as we drove away from our little idyll to head for our next port of call St Croix en Plein.
Close to Colmar we had been in this area before. The journey was relatively painless and uneventful. Being a Sunday the lorries were parked up for the day which meant that the roads were fairly empty. I feel that I am lacking in inspiration as I write. My cold sore on my lip has erupted with a vengeance and wonder just what I have done to deserve it. Been a bad girl I guess!!!! They say that a picture tells a thousand words and sadly I have few pictures to show so
far.
The rape fields gave way to empty ploughed fields waiting for the next crop to be planted. The yellow Laburnum flanked the roadsides. The grass had in parts been harvested already. A few months earlier than home in the United Kingdom. Cows munched away in the fields. Vines were being cultivated and the framework was erected for the upcoming hop harvest. For the first time we passed through a peage where virtually every van was being stopped and searched. It seemed that security was relatively high. We saw our first Crazy Legged Crane – a stork – with long gangling legs hunting for food in the fields. The more ingenious one had legged it to the Aire at Haute Konigsbery and was finding food around the rubbish bins.
So where did Suzy end up? In a campsite in the isolated area around the village of St Croix. An area of nothing but farms I didn’t expect much from the campsite. Reception was closed when we arrived so with half an hour to waste we walked around to see the lie of the land. The site is huge and very peaceful. Chickens wandered around pecking at the ground. There was a swimming pool but yet not open. Bungalows were scattered around the site. The plots were large and well set out on grass. The sanitary block was clean and tidy. If there was a problem it was the electricity supply. Plenty of posts but they were quite a long way from the plots. Once reception opened we paid our 17 euros 90 site fee, ordered bread for the next day and set up on plot 36. With awning pulled out we sat admiring the pink phlox growing thickly on the bank beside us. We drank our wine amongst the mauve Bearded Iris . We even picked up English TV. Kathrein of course decided she did not want to go back down into the parked position. We played a round or two of our quiz. We started the Big Quiz (two rounds a day) when we set out. We had got through a round of History and one of Geography. Glenn had crept ahead. Today we covered sport and cooking . I edged in front.
So what of today? We have passed the signs for the battles of the First World War, the Maginot Lines and one of the largest and best preserved examples of a Vauban fort . Tomorrow we had over the border into Switzerland. One rather nasty cold sore and my phone has packed up !!!!!
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