Wednesday 19th June. It’s not raining at the moment.

We awoke expecting rain to greet us when we leave but no there were one or two spots but nothing much. Jennifer a few months ago had been on a caravan manoeuvring course and she was now ready to try. So a little nervously she got in the car and we took the easy way out of the site but we did have to negotiate one tight turn and then on to the road to go via the local town and then country roads for about twenty miles to Bernay where we could join the motorway South. As usual in France in the country there is very little traffic compared to the UK and so once we got on the motorway it’s a much easier drive except the rain poured down for a while and after about two and half hours we thought we would have a technical break and Jennifer was pleased to handover to me. She did brilliantly and did not make any mistakes at all and so very encouraging for sharing the driving load in future.

It was motorway pretty much for 80% of the journey skirting Le Mans where many British cars were heading for the 24 hour race this weekend, and then when on the other side of Le Mans, no Brit cars at all. Down past Anger and on to Saumer which we by-passed and eventually arrived at the site we have never visited before Camping Le Serpolin in a place called Clery Sur Laone. It is run run by a British couple who also offer caravan storage and there were about 30 vans stored there mostly for English caravan owners who did not want to trail there van back to the UK each time.

Our van on field near Saumur

The site was quite wet but they had recently installed some hard standing and we were put on this rather than drive through the muddy grass. We set up but being on the gravel surface decided not to put up the small porch awning as it can be difficult to go through the stones with pegs.

Later in the evening we met the owner Adam who had just flown back from the Uk and it turned out that he is a serving special fire arms policeman who works ten days in London out of Hendon Police station and then ten back on his 17 acre site. I presume this way he can keep his full pension which for the police at the moment is pretty much one of the best pensions schemes around.

There are only about 15 sites at this location and spread around the outside of a field and with only British on site, which is a shame as we like to mix a little, but anyway we had dinner after sitting outside enjoying a small whisky and water.