Day 48 - Nord en Normandie 🧭

North into Normandy 🧭
Coming to the end of the holiday now. Just a few more days left to see a couple of things then its Eurotunnel and home. Today was a day of change. We knew it would be a motorway day doing at least 200miles heading North but where too 🤔?
     Over breakfast maps were studied and options considered. There was a national park we hadn't been in which was, sort of en route, Le Parc naturel regional et Geoparc Normandie Maine.
 👱‍♀️"We could go up into that, stay one night then cut across it, stay one night then go up towards Paris and go to Charles Monet's house , look at all the famous paintings and wander round the gardens. That would still give us a day or two left to do something else".
👨"I've a mate who's over for a short break, he's up at Honfleur on the Normandy coast, wouldn't mind catching up with him".
👱‍♀️"Hmm, that's a bit far to get too in one day, we would be jumping across from one side to the other, oh I don't know 🥴"
👨"Its going to take us a couple of hours to get to the mid point, sort of, so lets get going and think about it on the way"
👱‍♀️"Ok"
     A long punch on the motorway might give me a chance to grab half an hour or so snoozing while Jill just followed the sat nav.  I'd not had much sleep. The site had been almost deadly silent thru the night, maybe the odd Owl making its presence known  evey now and then but my stomach definitely wanted to be heard. The pasta/sausage stir fry we had cooked for tea was almost inedible 🤢. The sausages were a different brand from what we had been using normally; talk about salty 😯. We should have thrown it straight in the bin but it was late and we were hungry. Never again.
    Have way thru the day the plans changed as predicted. We decided to abandon the idea of going over towards Paris and instead go over to the left a bit, towards Bayeux so Jill could go and see the famous tapestry. Then we could travel up the Normandy coast and meet up with my mate. All we needed now was a place around Bayeux.
Aire Camping Car "Les Peupliers" is one of those campsites you want to treasure and not tell anybody about. A working farm with over a dozen gravel pitches and the same on grass. Lots of space, no distractions, apart from the owls and the odd cow 'mooooooing'. .Everything you need for €13 a night. Lovely owners, all very pretty.


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