We needed to be up early as we had a great distance to cover today and also because it was the first weekend in August when all the French hit the road for their holidays we expected some traffic jams.
The road lead us back to
The motorway service stations were packed to the gunnels with cars and caravans and although we stopped at a couple to look for an ATM machine it was almost a nightmare getting in and out with people just parking anywhere they could which is not not great for us in a back van. So now we use the Lorry parking.
It was pretty much quite grey when we finally arrived at the camp site near Moyaux called Chateau Le Colombier. We had to go down some pretty small roads and then we missed the sign and ended up on the small roads we had tried to avoid, anyway the site is lovely with a beautiful Chataeu and the ornamental gardens have been converted in to a large swimming pool. There is a bar in the pigeonaire and also a small casual restarant and also a very smart one in the Chatea. We opted for the casual one and enjoyed a large plate of Poulet Chasseur with pomme de terre and haricovere. It was a very nice dinner.
We walked around the site some more and it is quite crowded with Dutch and Brits and it is well laid out and has plenty of games areas for children. We don’t enjoy busy sites but this would be great in the off season and so we will try to return.
Noel is hoping the weather will improve tomorrow so that he can take some nice photos as it was a bit grey today.
It was quite a long day as we left our previous site at 0830 and only arrived here about 1700 with only a few brief pit stops and so it will be early to bed tonight.
There is an English couple across the road from us with looks like and adopted foreign daughter who seems to cry for attention all the time. I am glad we are moving on tomorrow.
