We normally visit a certain caravan site in Normandy for a couple of months each year but what with other commitments and also wishing to be closer at hand during possible sale of the house we have decided to stay in Uk for our caravan holiday this year. However, we have made good friends with the owner, or now ex owner of the caravan site, and wanted to see her anyway but this time without bringing the caravan. On the site of the Chateau is al several Gites including one four bedroom house which she will eventually live in and so she said we could stay there for three nights.So an early Sunday morning saw us getting up at around 05.30 and then leaving for Portsmouth to catch the 0815 ‘Mont Saint Michel’ Brittany Ferries vessel to Caen where we arrived around 15.00 and so by 16.45 we approached the Chateau and met up with our friend Ingrid and also the ex manager of the4 site and now also a close friend and so we spent the next few hours drinking tea and then moving on to wine canapes and lit the fire to keep us all warm. The house is made of old stone which retains the cold which is great when its very hot but not when its a bit cold. At around 7.30 pm they left us to return to the Chateau as Ingrid was cooking dinner for the gardener as usual and no doubt Gilles would also enjoy. However we had agreed that tomorrow we would all meet up for lunch including two other Dutch couples who have always been on site when we are there.
So on Monday morning we went shopping in Courmeilles to obtain food and wine for the lunchtime session. It was a lovely afternoon as we all met at about 12.30 and we sat around a table in the garden of the house and enjoying a mixture of food cobbled together by Jennifer and Ingrid and it was most enjoyable. The launch finished around 17.00 hrs and we returned to the house to have a quiet evening and Gilles departed for his home in Dinan.
On Tuesday, Ingrid was going to be busy with hosting a lunch for some other friends and and so Jennifer headed off on the country route to Trouville to a very nice fish restaurant we have used before. The food was really excellent and afterwards a quick walk around the town which was quite empty as the summer season has not started yet. On the way back to the house we did a tour of the caravan site which was more like a building site with lots of holes being dug and lots of earth where previous holes had been but in for water and electricity and there were a number of glamping tents and small huts spread around the site. The swimming pool both under cover and outside were not yet ready and those people who had booked their on a site where there is tons of room were all pushed to one small area and we were so glad we have decided to to bring the caravan this year. We tried to see out Dutch friends but nobody was about so perhaps another time.On Wednesday 29th May late morning we left the house and drove back tom Ouistram Port, Caen and caught the ferry back to Uk where we arrived ay 19.15 and then rushed home to see the second half of the Chelsea vs Arsenal match taking place in Baku, of all places.Thank heavens Chelsea won as Arsenal was a shambles.
So that was a quick visit and now we have to get ready for the next holiday as we leave on Saturday morning with the caravan to Somerset for three weeks taking in two separate caravan sites, one in Glastonbury and the other near Taunton in a place called Wivelscombe.
