We wanted to visit another site
North of tours on a lake called Camping Loir Sarthe The Lac des Varennes which
also had a good reputation and we got a little lost as the Garmin suddenly
freaked out and gave up whilst the on board sat nav was struggling to find us.
We think this was due to the severe heat and not picking up the satellite
signals but anyway after going the wrong way for a short while we found our
correct road and arrived at the site. This also was rather busy and there was a
nice lake where you could swim, there may have been a pool as well but we did
not see it. This site had lots of mobile homes which gives a negative view as
far as we are concerned but we also recognised that out of season it might be
quite nice.
We then found the motorway again and
headed to Le Mans and Alencon and continued up to Berney where we left the
motorway and headed to Cormeilles and the Chateau du Colombier where we were to
meet the owner to discuss tomorrow night’s surprise for out American friends who
we are due to meet at Le Havre the next morning. Having made all the
arrangement for the next evening we
departed to Le Havre and when we arrived the car temperature gauge was showing
an outside temp of 37 C degrees. We parked the car and picked up the the key for
our room at the Novotel which we had chosen as it was next to the railway
station where our friends would arrive the next morning.
After a shower we walked in to the
pretty much closed shopping mall and found a restaurant but the food was not
good so not to be repeated. Next time we will go in to the main town to see
what we could find but it was still pretty hot and walking any great distance
might be challenging. Anyway tomorrow we can lay in a little as we don’t have
to be at the station until around 11.00 perhaps.
On the TV that night we watched the
closing ceremony of the Tour Du France and the digital images shown on the Arc
de Triomph were quite incredible but it was also good to see an English guy win
the 100th race!!!
