Best Western Le Cheval Blanc Honfleur

This last weekend my program's group traveled to Normandy and Brittany. It was a very cool trip! On Saturday we drove from Paris to Caen, Normandy. We visited the Memorial de Caen, which is a museum/memorial from WWII. Caen was a city during WWII that was occupied by the Germans, and it was a major victory when the Allies were able to seize it. After Caen, we drove on to Omaha Beach to the American ...

Arrived at Ouistreham just before dark and found an Aire de Service right on the beach and this time it was free! The downside was it was right next to the ferry terminal and the 6am ferry to Portmouth the next day was kill the tranquilo the next morning. Kim's Maison du Scooby cooked up a storm. Pork fajitas on rice - delicious. I gave it 5 stars.

From Rouen we drove to Honfleur, which is a tiny harbour town on the Normandy coast. So so cute!!!! We wandered around checking out the wee boutique shops and eating galeti - yum! Nothing for dinner and as it was Sunday only one little grocery shop was open with not much selection so we opted for a fillet of freshly caught ...

Onwards to Etretat for our first overnight stay in an Aires de service. These are overnight parking areas for campers and moterhomes and supply fresh water, electricity and waste dumping facilities. All at a rock bottom price. This one was 5 Euro for the parking a and extra 2 euro for the water and electirc hookup.
Town has spectacular cliffs beautiful old building full of character.

17.08.09 Sarlat-La--Caneda N4 53.747'E1 12.747' 5eu for 24hrs here and 2eu for water. A new experience for us, this aire was controlled by credit card. To get in, one approaches, pushes a button, takes a ticket and the barrier rises. To leave, enter that ticket followed by your credit card. No need to enter numbers, the barrier rises. Sarlat is a pleasant town but heaving with us tourists. We had a look at the hotel we stayed in 8-9 years ago with Chris and Pat and ...

... and not wanting to feed five of us, we regretted the company as we did not want to stop.
We dropped them off at the entrace to another motorway and wished them on their way. We promptly stopped for lunch and a coffee!
Another experience ticked off our list at least.
As things were going well we carried onto through to Noirmoutier to our latest "Aires" in the centre of Noirmoutier at 7 euros per night

... which works to a point but when you're paying two pound per Mb it get expensive. In the great scheme of things its not much when your running a 7 ton bus but its still stupid and it does not re-route if (when)you take a good turning.
On the way to Noirmoutier, it attempted to take us over the "alternative" crossing at high tide!!

The first night was spent in a nice stop on the edge of the old port in Calais.
I've been here before when i did some sailing in my youth so i know it well.
It seemed safe enough as there must have been 50 motorhomes but there was a broken window overnight for someone!
We moved onto honfleur and found a nice stop 2Km from honfleur which was free and had a large football/basketball court for jake to play in

... we manage to walk and do things in between showers but we also do a lot of nothing and enjoy the peace fulness of the place. We did manage a trip to Houlgate where there is a lot of beach where you can find fossils, we walked at "La Vache Noir" steep black rocks, eat "Moules and frites" right at the beach and watched the sunset. Time flies and it was Wednesday before we knew it and had to leave this little paradise.

... WWII tour (well, I wanted to) and go visit Mt-St-Michelle which is an abbey on an island which you could only go when the tide was low. Now there is a road that leads to the abbey that can be accessed even with high tide, but the parking lot can still be submerged in ...