Hotel Ambassadeur Etretat

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 ...

... taken, and all that was left was the suite with jacuzzi for like 3 times the price. And we are the only ones that use the toilet in the hallway, so i figured i'd give it a try. So far so good, but its only like 8:30PM now.....I have to say, after lying in the sun on a rock at the top of the cliff facing the sea with the sun shining on us, life aint so bad.......suggest everyone take a year off and travel ...

Hi from Gay Paris,
I meant to apologise in my last entry for not communicating for a while but I was waiting for some internet credits. Have them now. We decided to get a bus organised from the ship because it was a 3 hour trip from the ship to Paris and we didn't want to get left behind. Graeme said he didn't care whether he went to Paris or not, but we all managed to talk him into it and he was so glad that he had. I liked it better than the first time I was ...

After scouring our France guide book we find a place in Northern France that has these beautiful cliffs and one in particular that resembles an elephant's trunk (Falais D amont and Falais d aval). This is a few hours out of our way (each way) so we almost bag it a few times along the trip. When we get there we are not disappointed.

Not only are the cliffs beautiful but ...

We started this morning planning to visit Honfleur and spend a couple of days here as it is so beautiful. But today it rains, so today it loses!
As the battery is flat too, we simply cast off and drove south west.
On the way out of Cite Europe where we took on some diesel we say a couple of hitchers, and as we were feeling in good spirits we picked them up.
They were quite chatty but after a while we were ...

TomTom is great, expect when you don't have the maps for the country you're in!
We have the full european DVD but loading all the maps onto the phone was one item that did not make it onto my big list of jobs to do before we left.
I still have the DVD with my but no DVD drive!
We have been navigating with googlemaps since ...

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

I just returned from a workshop in the beautiful village of Etretat, France. There are some chalk cliffs in Etretat, similar to the white chalk cliffs in Dover and Callais. It was great to be in France where I at least understand some of the language! The trip was good; I learned some geology, got to spend time outdoors, and ate amazing food. Well, most of the food was amazing...some of the ...