Saturday, 5 July 2025

Homeward Bound

 


Wedesday 2nd July 2025


We left Luneray mid morning and went into Dieppe where there is a very large Auchan supermarket and shopping arcade.

So the day was mostly spent looking around the shops then we had some rain in the afternoon that kept us inside Ed for a couple of hours.

Our ferry is at 6pm so we headed to the port at about 4.30 to join the queue and seemed to be one of the last to arrive.

It was a slow process getting loaded, but we made it eventually

The ferry is certainly a lot more hassle than the Euro Tunnel.

Anyway it was a smooth crossing and soon the white cliffs of Blighty came into view and we had a good view of the Seven Sisters at Birling Gap before docking at Newhaven.

We docked on time at 9pm UK time but it took about 40 minutes to get off the ferry.

I wanted to get north of London on the M23 and M25 during the quiet evening traffic.

I'd pinned a possible place near Oxford to overnight if I felt tired, or just a rest stop if I felt able to carry on. It was about 2 hours from Newhaven.

When we got there around midnight it was the skankiest place you could imagine, I didn't even stop for a cuppa tea, and I think we'd have been murdered in our sleep if we'd decided to overnight there.

So we re-joined the motorway and stopped at the next services for a rest.

Refreshed with caffine, I decided to carry on to home, and arrived there about 0230, tired but home.

It was a good trip, I enjoyed Normandy and Brittany immensely and it was a pleasure to drive around. The beaches are un-matched and the scenery beautiful.


Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Luneray

 

Tuesday 1st July 2025

We hung around at La Palmeraie this morning making the most of the electric hook up to use the air conditioning and we needed it !

It was another really hot day and Louis wouldn't walk for more than 20 yards before flopping down to say that's enough, I took that as a refusal and thought to myself how sensible he is.

It was too hot to do anything, so we did just that, nothing 






After lunch we disconnected our umbilical cord linking us to coolness and set the sat nav for Veules Les Roses on the channel coast in the hope it might be cooler there.

It was indeed much cooler with a stiff sea breeze.

The parking was on top of the cliffs so no beach action unfortunately, without a steep climb down which I didn't feel we were up to today.

There was a proper mist on the channel though, visibility was very poor.

It's hard to tell where the sea ends and the sky begins !




Our parking for tonight is in Luneray about 20 minutes from Dieppe and is another camping car park, with electric, so air conditioner in use again tonight.

It's warmer here than earlier on the coast, but not as hot as La Palmeraie on the Seine thankfully.

It's not a scenic aire, just a carpark but clean and functional with electric and water services, so it'll do us for our last night in France.




The temperature has dropped by late afternoon quite a rew degrees and the forecast says a chance of rain tomorrow, so much more comfortable conditions here