Les Gens De Mer Hotel Le Havre

... steep to get down to the shore, it’s hard to imagine how difficult the soldiers had it. Seeing the sight at Omaha Beach really made me feel proud to be an American. After the beach, we drove onward to Saint-Malo, which is on the coast, and is a walled city. We stayed at a cute little hotel, similar to a B&B and had dinner at a nice restaurant, too bad I ordered my steak too rare…

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.

... Last time, Tourist Information was the place to go - this time we have found virtually none with this facility. Also, I write on the PC and save to memory sticks. These are OK in I/Cafes but barey permitted elsewhere. A much-needed laundrette hasx been found and used so the bedding and towels have received attention. Amazing how much pleasure D derives from this. Another Brit couple were using the laundrette and have some books to swap. Enjoyable lunch at an Italian ...

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

... a little unsteady, disorientated and unable to read well. We left dinner early and came back to the room for a rest. This morning she had a blood spot over her eye. We went to the doctor and he gave her a through examination and concluded that it was a TIA. He told us that unless she has more episodes; it is harmless and that we are already doing what we should to prevent the episodes. He said that she could resume her normal cruise activities, but if it occurs again to ...

... a bit of a challenge, and finding the train station worse. Luckily we had arrived in Le Havre early enough to allow us plenty of time, so we bought our return ticket and enjoyed our first cafe in a local bar, with fresh baguette and jam for breakfast. We've worked out that to sit in these (train) seats ...