Yes, we could have used all the motorways and Toll roads from St Cirq le Popie to get back to Calais, but where is the fun in travel. Some years ago we left the Lot Valley in our comfortable V8 Jaguar car which goes quite fast and is very comfortable and drove pretty much all the way back to Calais and thinking perhaps to stay the night near the Port for an early morning ferry, but this was at about 6 pm and then again we could be home tonight in our own bed and so we did this and drove from St Cirq all the way home in one day so it can be done although tiring. However the negative outcome of doing this is that you miss all the best bits of France which are whizzing by you at 80 mph and so you don't see anything so this time we decided to drag it out and stay away from Motorways, Toll Roads and use country roads which is much nicer hence or route back via Limoges, Sable Sur Sarthe and Rouen, its more expensive as you have four nights Hotel and food etc but you only live once.
Anyway we left our Hotel this morning shortly after 10.00 and drifted thro the country side taking four hours to do a 2.5 hours route by Motorways and passed thro some lovely towns and villages. In Sees there is an amazing Cathedral but we could not stop due to all parking close by taken up but we said we must return some time. We stopped for petrol so that we would have a full tank when leaving Rouen tomorrow so we can get home without any further stops. The Satnav
was set up for the shortest route which made the journey interesting as our arrival road in to Rouen was alongside the river and main port and not the most beautiful arrival in to this town.
We arrived at our Hotel de Bourgtheroulde , a very nice old Hotel in the middle of the old part of town, we did stay here once before during the time that Christopher was born in January 2017 , about two weeks early , and so we celebrated his arrival at the time with two glasses of Champagne in the nice bar they have here.
For dinner we went to a local restaurant in the market square and it was a nice place with lots of good reviews from Trip Adviser and it certainly was nice. One comment about the Hotel, for only one night we took cheapest room but discovered that due bed and room layout there was no headrest at end of bed and in Noel's case the air con unit blew all night so needing some ducking and diving. The phone rang a few times for no reason and so needed to be unplugged. Apart from that its a nice Hotel but if we stay agin get a better room
Anyway we are here for only one night and tomorrow head off to Calais to catch our ferry back home but will be using Motorways and Toll roads to get there on time.
