Novotel Bassin Vauban Le Havre

... steep to get down to the shore, it&#8217;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&amp;B and had dinner at a nice restaurant, too bad I ordered my steak too rare&#8230;<br>

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.

... and of course washed down with a few glasses of rose!<br> <br>Next morning we went for a run through the village and along the beach. It was a glorious morning! Afterwards Kim went to have another potter through the village, take some photos and buy groceries while I was able to have my long awaited fiddle with Scooby ...

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>

... 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!<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

... a mini-map of the city at the Tourist Information Desk in the Terminal Building. Off we went down the harbor road out to the city road that runs along the edge of the harbor of Le Havre. It was a quick walk that took us out into the city near the St. Joseph's Church. We had selected this location as there was a large flea market being held on this holiday. The flea market was being held in the parking area of the church and the adjoining parking areas of several other large ...

Le Havre - May 17th After 3 more days on The Atlantic it was good to see land once more, even if through a grey mist! We got off the ship to visit the town as early as we could via a shuttle bus, and thought the lack of activity must be down to us being early for once and a laid back French approach to life. Turned out that it was Ascension Day, a national holiday in France, and just about everywhere was shut. We did our best to make a day of it and managed to get coffee etc ...