Where's Bertie? He's sitting on his lonesome in an Aire in the town of Eu, which sits about 3km inland from Le Tréport. It costs €10 to stay here including electricity and water*. (Exact location: 50.05288, 1.42376)
Weather: Gloriously sunny morning, rainy afternoon.
With hindsight, when we were surprised to see a clear blue sky this morning, we should have seized the opportunity to go for a walk. What we did instead was ready Bertie for a move.
Our new destination was only a handful of kilometres away, but it was broken up with two stops en-route. The first was at McDonalds, where we installed ourselves in their car park to avail ourselves of their (painfully slow) wifi. When it became apparent that our stay there was going to be more than five minutes, we felt bad about not giving them any custom, so Mick nipped in for a coffee. That backfired: it turns out that coffee is free before noon - and not just if you're making a food purchase. So, we then found ourselves not only squatting in their car park, using their wifi, but doing so whilst drinking free coffee.
As lunchtime came, the car park got busy, so we took ourselves off to Lidl (passing through a minor, but non-disruptive fuel protest on our way), then finally to this Aire, which is all shiny and new, having only opened 3 months ago.
The reason for coming here was that I ran through a bit of the town yesterday and it looked interesting enough to spend a day here. Our enthusiams for exploring was quashed, however, when rain started to fall immediately after lunch. Thus, it wasn't until the light was seeping out of the day (and the rain had let up a bit) that we took ourselves off for an initial glance at the place. No photos today - the light was too low - but we plan to have a better look in daylight tomorrow.
(*The price includes water if you happen to have a male-male hose connector in your armoury. We don't. It's gone onto the 'to buy' list.)
Weather: Gloriously sunny morning, rainy afternoon.
With hindsight, when we were surprised to see a clear blue sky this morning, we should have seized the opportunity to go for a walk. What we did instead was ready Bertie for a move.
Our new destination was only a handful of kilometres away, but it was broken up with two stops en-route. The first was at McDonalds, where we installed ourselves in their car park to avail ourselves of their (painfully slow) wifi. When it became apparent that our stay there was going to be more than five minutes, we felt bad about not giving them any custom, so Mick nipped in for a coffee. That backfired: it turns out that coffee is free before noon - and not just if you're making a food purchase. So, we then found ourselves not only squatting in their car park, using their wifi, but doing so whilst drinking free coffee.
As lunchtime came, the car park got busy, so we took ourselves off to Lidl (passing through a minor, but non-disruptive fuel protest on our way), then finally to this Aire, which is all shiny and new, having only opened 3 months ago.
The reason for coming here was that I ran through a bit of the town yesterday and it looked interesting enough to spend a day here. Our enthusiams for exploring was quashed, however, when rain started to fall immediately after lunch. Thus, it wasn't until the light was seeping out of the day (and the rain had let up a bit) that we took ourselves off for an initial glance at the place. No photos today - the light was too low - but we plan to have a better look in daylight tomorrow.
(*The price includes water if you happen to have a male-male hose connector in your armoury. We don't. It's gone onto the 'to buy' list.)
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