Inter-Hotel Le Bauza Le Havre

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.

... 24.09.09 St. Sauveur-Le-Vicomte N49.23.192' W1.31.770' Good to hear the Line Dancers stamping their way through the night. 25.09.09 Villers-Bocage N43.04'46" W0.39'38" Our neighbour here was a one-legged Yorkshire ex-policeman from Ireland who with his Irish wife was on his way to Spain where they regularly over-wintered in an almost completely English/Irish community at La Malina? I think he said. He had collected an unpaid 200eu driving fine in Portugal last year 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 ...

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

... and enjoyed the quite town holiday atmosphere. Although it has been raining in Le Havre for the last few days, the luck of the White Lady held for our day in port. Although cool, it was a bright sunny day with blue sky and white clouds. And quiet, the holiday had almost emptied the city streets of automobiles. Although the ship offered a shuttle into Le Havre City Center, we decided that it was too short of a walk and beautiful day to ride on the shuttle. We left the ship and ...

Todat the ship portedin LA Havre witch is in France and is the second most inportant port in france and i beautiful as well.. When U.S. and Canadian troops left France after world war 2 it was from LA Havre. LA Havre is also where the Seine River enpties into the Channel. ( not to be confused with Chanel witch store we visited in Paris).HAHAHAHAHAHA