Tuesday October 23, La Mailleraye-sur-Seine

Tonight's view, always changing.

What a difference a day makes, after the grey day we had yesterday we woke this morning to clear blue skies and sunshine. We spent quite some time pouring over maps, working out where we would head, our general direction is to Le Quesnoy where on November 4 the centennial of the NZ soldiers liberating the town just before Armistice is being celebrated with a big event organised by the NZ Armed Forces. We want to get there a few days beforehand and find a place where we can park the van and be part of the event. One of the problems at this time of the year is that all the campgrounds and Municipal campgrounds are closed until next season. We were keen to find a good spot where we could have some “stay put” time for a few days. Went through so many different locations using the different apps I have but not much joy finding a new spot. Finally decided to head back to Mailleraye where we had spent two days at the beginning of August last year. It is such a great spot right on the Seine River where you can watch the boats passing by with a really nice village providing all the amenities we need, and it is in the general direction we are heading.

Set Jilly on course for the four hour drive, which took us through some beautiful rolling country and lots of pretty little villages. Never seem to tire of this scenery. We continued on into Normandy with a noticeable change in the buildings, lots of half timbered houses and even some still with  their thatched roofs.

Had a number of stops along the way and we took our time and enjoyed the ride. It felt so good to come back to this favourite spot and there were already about a dozen campers parked up, and a warm welcome from our Brit “neighbours”.

So good to see the sunshine again.

...and these girls were enjoying their lunch outside.

Half timbered buildings.

Such a variety of ships passing by.