Hotel Continental Deauville, France

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.

... The gear box was in need of some TLC. Kim came back to find me covered in grease and waste deep in Scooby. I am certainly learning my way around a car engine.
A quick pit stop via McDonalds for free internet to upload our blog and photos and then onto Ouistreham code name Sword Beach - the first of the D-Day beaches.

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.

... 09.09 Quintin N48.24'01" W2.54'58" Heavy rain - what a novelty!. Visited the Chateau where, to our indescribable delight, there was a chamber pot exhibition. Well, imagine the pleasure of seeing say twenty, then multiply that by twenty and you may begin to understand how we felt. Quite possibly, unlike other less fortunate people, we may never need to see another.... 16.09.09 St. Malo N48.38.905' W2.00.903' The aire here - which has no facilities - is bordered on one ...

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

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So now I sit at the hotel I left this morning only within a few hours of some of the most historic sites that I have wanted to see for the last 10 years of my life and I may not get the chance to see them.

In the end however, It was a minor inconvenience to know that Jim who wanted to return to Normandy had that opportunity to do so. And for that, the inconvenience was just that. A minor blip in a tour that has been and will be filled ...

... might look like, then you've got this B&B. My parents are the only people who read my blogs who will get this though. Mont St. Michele is truly awe inspiring. To tell you the truth, I had never heard of it before meeting the folks from Wisco. It is an ancient cathedral, fort, monastery, and city all rolled into one castle grey skull looking island in the middle of a huge tidal basin. At high tide it used to be surrounded by water. Therefore, it was only accessible at ...