Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Monday 11th June 2017- Site visits

Following breakfast we left the site around 10.00 and headed via the country roads to a place called Saint-Martin-des-Besaces  which is South of Bayeux and the name of the site was Camping Les Puits. The traffic had been quite slow that morning as our route when via Pont Leveque where we had not realised that there was a big market on and so the roads around the area were packed, oh well.
Anyway we arrived in the the town of Saint Martin etc and it was in a bad state with many empty houses and closed shops and hotels and it looks like its on it last legs and could not see any shops at all. We found the caravan site behind the local sport field and it looked uncared for with only about three caravans on site and all of them looked like they were being stored rather than in use. The reception and bar area looked as though it needed TLC and and so we turned round and headed off straight to the next when which is about 17 kilometres from Bayeux .
This site was called Les Picardy Hotels and was in better shape than the first and they do caravan storage and have mobile homes as well, ugghh!. We met the owner who showed us proudly around but quite frankly we were not impressed.
The Picardy countryside, we both agreed, was nowhere near so nice as Normandy and specifically where we stay and so we will not be pursuing any further sites in that area.  The only reason we look is for general interest and sometimes it makes a change.
In the evening we enjoyed some pork ribs and rice and a glass of wine and then had a quiet night watching UK rubbish TV. And so to bed.