L'Auberge de la Marine
Travel Blogs from Le Crotoy
The Road to Dieppe
Drove down the coast towards the fishing port of Dieppe. Stopped at *********** the way where there was a Harley Davidson festival of all things. Drove onwards through Ault which signalled the start of the huge white cliffed coast.Arrived in Dieppe and explored the town. Small fishing port with a few churches and a medieval castle looking down in the ...
La naissance du veau
This morning, Tommy packed his bag ready to go to Luchon tonight and James, Billy and Matty went out with Pierre-Marie to erect an electric fence. Alastair and Caroline visited Brigitte to book the gite again for next August! (All ideas of being more adventurous have evaporated during the last fortnight as we have had such a good ...
A sociable day
... so a haven for ours. Matty ended up painting the wrought-iron gates with Felicity. An hour and a half later, we returned for a very late lunch!
After lunch, it was a bit late to go out anywhere far away and the boys wanted to go out with Pierre-Marie, so Alastair and I nipped down to Leclerc for bread and things.
Later in the afternoon,Tommy and Matty came back from a trip to the field with a baby hare -Pierre-Marie had told them to bring ...
Route de la paille
... fun cycle ride, and a good reason for an ice cream when we went to Sainte-Cécile-Plage. (Tommy)
That was the teenage perspective on the day -now for the amplified version!
Today's route started the same way as yesterday's -up the valley to St Michel-sous-bois,then turned off up a very steep twisty lane, which defeated some of us. Thankfully,it was not a very long push and opened out onto the plateau, which provided a lovely resting place among ...
Cycle ride up the valley
... we could find for lunch, then, as the sun was breaking through, drove down to Stella for a swim. It was a bit cooler at the sea today -about 20 degrees C -but very pleasant in the water and still warm enough when we had finished. Our warm-up stroll up the beach turned into a game of volley ball (not quite Olympic standards!) Then the boys went to play on the edge of the dunes.
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