Blogs from Upper Normandy, France, Europe - page 5

Notre dernier but : aller jusqu'à Etretat car faudra bien rentrer pour mercredi soir... Nous décidons donc de faire un bref passage à Etretat avant de prendre la route du retour et profiter encore de beaux paysages... La pluie est tombée toute la nuit mais au lever s'est heureusement arrêtée... Ceci nous permet de nous promener donc un peu dans Etretat que nous connaissons bien entendu, mais qu'il fait bon retrouver... Et sur le chemin du retour nous voici maintenant sur la route des pommes de terre ! on en récolte partout ! Puis nous voici à L'abbaye Notre-Dame-du-Pré de Valmont, primitivement appelée Sainte-Marie de Valmont, est une abbaye bénédictine située dans la commune de Valmont en url=https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seine-Mari... read more

Une bonne nuit dans Pollux après cette belle promenade à Amiens... et un départ aux heures normales de lever des gens de nôtre âge... mais aussi de l'ouverture d'une boulangerie pour y trouver nos croissants tous frais du matin... Nous voici donc au pied de l'église de Bougainville pour y déguster nos croissants... Notre but est d'atteindre Fécamp... où nous nous rendons tout de suite au camping car le bord de mer est saturé... mais camping : pas de réception... vue et disposition des emplacements bien moins bien qu'il y a plus de 30 ans... Nous restons garés à l'entrée pour y déjeuner mais nous n'avons plus l'intention de rester ici... et même si la réception vient d'ouvrir nous décidons d'aller visiter Bénédictine puis reprendre la route pour aller direction Etretat ! Bénédictine : un régal ... read more

Oh dear. Just discovered that according to our last blog, from June 28th, we are still wandering round France heading homewards but never quite getting there. I am happy to report we did make it home after a one night stop at our favourite aire at Le Crotoy (where we had a prime seaview spot so were extremely happy). We even managed to get to England via the Chunnel between closures because of migrants and then ferry worker fires. Once home we’ve had a very pleasant 2 months of English summer including a 3 day camping trip in Stratford with sister Liz and cousin Denise, as we’ve done now for the last 3 years. We’ve seen all our children (5) and grandchildren (11 including Bob’s 2 greats). We’ve enjoyed our newly worked back garden which ... read more

Tandy was rocked by wind last night then hammered with rain but it seems to have got it out of its system as all ok again when we got up, quite early as we had a train to catch. Fortunate we were in plenty of time as we discovered there were 2 more Irish traveller caravans, which had arrived late last night and been barred entry, parked outside the gate blocking it. Oops. They were ‘persuaded’ to let us out. Not a pleasant experience we would willingly choose to repeat. Got to the Chunnel in excellent time and boarded an earlier train than booked. In France by 10am or 11am after we’d adjusted our watches. Easy drive down through the massive arable fields of Normandy. Such a pleasure to drive on roads which are not clogged ... read more

We were up early this morning for another big driving day and because we wanted to reach Giverny in time to see Monet's garden. We were down in the dining room by 7.00am, having breakfast with all the business people, checked out and on the road by just after 8.00am. We set the Sat-Nav for Giverny and off we headed up the A6 towards Paris. With our road map of Southern France about to run out at just north of Macon we stopped at the Aire (services) stop at Macon for a toilet break and stretch. Bernie was prepared to just trust the Sat-Nav, but I wanted to buy a map just to be able to see where we were actually travelling. We were able to purchase a map of all of France, but the scale ... read more