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| VilleDomer to Le Crotoy - 240 miles |
A light rain shower or
two during the night persisted into the day as we went through our
usual routine, again a little later than planned. As our stay had
been free we decided to support the local commerce and bought a
baguette at the nearby shop for the princely sum of 80 cents!
Then back onto the N10
and todays run took in Chartres, Dreux, Evereux, Rouen, Abbeville
then onto Le Crotoy, our planned destination for tonight. Apart from
short sections through smaller towns it was all on motorway-class
roads so we kept up a good average speed although the fuel
consumption suffers a little. We refuelled early on in the day, our
first in France, and noted a wide variety of prices – we went
off-route a short distance to use LeClerc, the big supermarket chain,
where we've found the cheapest in the past and so it was today.
With the weather
gradually improving we stopped in Lidl's carpark in Dreux for lunch
then pushed on. Because of our later start and also not getting as
far as we wanted yesterday, it looked like being quite late (for us)
at Le Crotoy so as it was on our route anyway we called at the aire
in Pont de L'Arche, where we stopped outbound, but by 4,00 pm it was
already full, though not all were motorhomes and the guardian didn't
seem bothered about doing anything about it. So we decided to carry
on.
In the end it was just
on 18.00 when we arrived at Le Crotoy to find a busy aire but with
still plenty of room so found ourselves a nice enough pitch and
settled in with the late afternoon sun keeping things pleasantly
warm. Le Crotoy was once a fishing village on the Baie de Somme but
is now very much tourist orientated although in a simple way. St
Valerie-sur-Somme on the other side of the bay is more into it and a
nice mini-train ride will take you there; we enjoyed it last year.
However our main reason
for coming here is that there is a very convenient and reasonable vet
in Rue, the next town about 5/10 minutes away, and we'll be taking
Jamie there tomorrow for his worming tablet and his Pet Passport to
be signed, ready for the Chunnel crossing on Saturday. Subject to
that we may come back here or continue further north. We'll see.
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