Where's Bertie? He's at an Aire in Montville, about 20km NW of Rouen. It's free to stay here, but it's €6 if you want any water. (Exact location: 49.54738, 1.07191)
Weather: Wall-to-wall sunshine.
I had good intentions to do various things this morning, but somehow time evaporated, with only a few things ticked off my mental to-do list and it was later than intended by the time we ambled off for a quick look around the town.
By quarter past noon we were ready to hit the road, which was badly timed as, having not seen a single vehicle use the service point all morning, a new arrival managed to beat us to it by seconds as we tried to leave.
The drive to Montville was not long, but it was attractive with a fine display of autumn colours along a woodland-lined D-road. Arriving here, we didn't find the Aire to be where the SatNav thought it was, and just as I was starting to gather the resources to work out its true location, we stumbled across it. Having made like Goldilocks and tried out various spaces (too slopey to the left, too slopey to the front) we settled on a spot right in front of the boules pitches (slightly slopey backwards), where some of the older members of the community were just gathering:
This was only the start of the gathering. At its peak there must have been 10 games going on at any one time.
Five hours later, a hardcore few are still playing (6.15pm), now under floodlights.
The sum of our activity for the afternoon has been a walk around the small lake next to the Aire...
...followed by a short stroll around the town. That revealed there to be, in amongst various other shops, no fewer than three boulangerie/pattiserie outlets, of which we managed to pass two without incident. A trip outside of the third resulted in this purchase:
Huge servings, prettily wrapped and ridiculously cheap at a total of €3
We'd best do a bit of extra exercise tomorrow to justify these!
Weather: Wall-to-wall sunshine.
I had good intentions to do various things this morning, but somehow time evaporated, with only a few things ticked off my mental to-do list and it was later than intended by the time we ambled off for a quick look around the town.
By quarter past noon we were ready to hit the road, which was badly timed as, having not seen a single vehicle use the service point all morning, a new arrival managed to beat us to it by seconds as we tried to leave.
The drive to Montville was not long, but it was attractive with a fine display of autumn colours along a woodland-lined D-road. Arriving here, we didn't find the Aire to be where the SatNav thought it was, and just as I was starting to gather the resources to work out its true location, we stumbled across it. Having made like Goldilocks and tried out various spaces (too slopey to the left, too slopey to the front) we settled on a spot right in front of the boules pitches (slightly slopey backwards), where some of the older members of the community were just gathering:
This was only the start of the gathering. At its peak there must have been 10 games going on at any one time.
Five hours later, a hardcore few are still playing (6.15pm), now under floodlights.
The sum of our activity for the afternoon has been a walk around the small lake next to the Aire...
...followed by a short stroll around the town. That revealed there to be, in amongst various other shops, no fewer than three boulangerie/pattiserie outlets, of which we managed to pass two without incident. A trip outside of the third resulted in this purchase:
Huge servings, prettily wrapped and ridiculously cheap at a total of €3
We'd best do a bit of extra exercise tomorrow to justify these!
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