Mercure Bassin Du Commerce Le Havre

... there. It was beautiful, haunting, and eerie to see the sight of where the troupes landed on D-Day. When I was in the museum, I was listening to an interactive audio recording of soldier’s experiences from D-Day, and the first button I happened to push was of a soldier from Mt. Vernon, IL! What a small world. To climb down to the actual beach part of Omaha Beach took awhile. It’s ...

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. <br>Town has spectacular cliffs beautiful old building full of character.<br>

... two workmen - the customers were mainly workers - had helped themselves to what looked like a 2 litre jug of red, dispensed from a multi-gallon wine box affair at the end of the room. After another visit or two to the starters bar (we could go as many times as we wished) our main courses arrived, three of us having steak and chips and John thin-sliced pork in a mustard sauce. A truly memorable meal for an incredibly low 10.50eu per head. Oh to live in that village ...

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!<br>As the battery is flat too, we simply cast off and drove south west.<br>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.<br>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!<br>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.<br>I still have the DVD with my but no DVD drive!<br>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.<br>I've been here before when i did some sailing in my youth so i know it well.<br>It seemed safe enough as there must have been 50 motorhomes but there was a broken window overnight for someone! <br>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

... come back to the ship's infirmary. He can not tell a lot unless he examines her during an episode. Basically we will not change much but we will be vigilant for another episode. If one happens then we will see the doctor immediately. As an added precaution, we curtailed a lot of the activity that we had planned for the next couple of days. We expect for this to not reoccur and to check on it when we return to San Jose in approximately twelve days. . Today we just walked into ...

... ve had to spend close to 2000Pounds Stirling, I'm sure that is close to 5000 Aussie-Battler Dollars. OK, we bought a car too, but what of 2 months worth of accommodation and food!!! Oh no bother i suppose. But this will be a recurring topic throughout these travelogues, i guarantee... Oooh, the EXCITEMENT!