The September 5th.
Left home 1900 hrs for Canterbury Park and Ride,
not far from home but enables an early start for the ferry. Went into the Gate Inn for a meal which was not very good. A disappointing start.
September 6th.
Left at 0550hrs for Dover. Got the 0640 P&O sailing to Calais, breakfast in the Brasserie, disembarked in Calais 0915 local time. Drove straight to Adinkirke for my tobacco, then deciding to take advantage of the quiet Sunday roads drove to Camping les Illettes in Charly-sur-Marne just East of Paris. Arrived 1530 hrs, the lady owner was trying to explain something to me, her limited English and my limited French made it difficult. Eventually using an app on her phone she was telling me there could be some noise from the pickers. What it was, was a lot of Poles were in tents on site with vans, they were picking grapes locally. They were fine, there was some noise in the morning at 0700hrs as they set off for work. it wasn't a problem for us as we were hitting the road anyhow. We had spent a nice evening outside enjoying the warmth.
And we both enjoyed a good sleep.
September 6th.
Left at 0900hrs, we had picked Nevers as our next stopover. As is usual progarammed sat-nav to avoid tolls and off we went. Had a very pleasant drive in the most part. Arrived Camping de Nevers 1400hrs. A very nice site by the river.
Checked in for 1 night and set up.
Had a cuppa, as you do, then talk a walk across the bridge for a look round.
As can be seen the weather was lovely, quite hot in town. Sadly almost everywhere was closed, nowhere for a beer, and couldn't even find a boulangerie to get bread and cakes. The Cathedral is quite imposing,
but even this we couldn't go in. So back to the site, relaxing in the sun and enjoying the surroundings.
Hazel did some miniature weaving for Teeny Weeny World, with a glass of Pinot Grigio, me I just had a beer and did nothing.
The hoody was because the breeze off the river was quite cool. In the evening Hazel had a 1st go at "Toad in the Hole" cooked in the Remoska.
An outstanding success. Decided that tomorrow we would do a long run and go to Millau. Then to bed.
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