We left the Hotel and departed using only the B roads or the occasional Route Nationale, and had a very pretty route through some very attractive countryside. We bought lunch in a Supermarket and stopped by the side of the road in the Forest de Dreaux for a brief lunch. As our journey had not been fast and as we had stopped early the previous day we decided to press ahead to find a Hotel much later in the day and we ended up in a town called Le Blanc.en-route we stopped for a coffee break in a small town right next to the church only to find a wedding taking place and so minutes after we arrived the church emptied and the bride and groom went in a carriage and pair around the town followed by the guests in their cars, about 50 cars in all, and they used their hooters to celebrate the wedding. This caused quite a traffic jam but they did not care!!!
A number of Hotels were signposted and we looked at two and then saw a sign for another called Domain de L’Etape 3 Kms out of town and so we thought that this might be quieter being out of town and so we went on though country lanes until the road went off the SatNav but we kept going and came across a very nice Chateau where we finally stayed the night. The restaurant was closed in the Chateau and so we went back in to town for dinner, not very good though. Note the Chateau only had two other guests apart from us, so it was quiet.
