Up early and set off to the next site, inland away from the coast, the campsite where we where trying to book a bus trip to Paris from. The toilets close to us were open this morning and they were worse than the others but at least we didn't have the difficult trek to get to them.
Mick needed fuel so first stop was to be a petrol station so I set one into the sat nav, fist I took a wrong turn and had to do a detour down a very narrow street to gat back on track. Next the swing bridge across the river was open and we had to wait ages for that to close and then when we did come to a petrol station, it wasn't the one we were aiming for. We did not need fuel so we parked to wait for Mick to fill up but then decided as we were here why not fill up, after all it is better to be full when the scooter is on the back. So I pulled in next to Mick, filled up and paid, then things started to go wrong as I pulled away the was a bump. On investigation one of the small bollards on the exit was catching under the van, this was because of the angle I had to turn to get out and the back end had swung round. Eventually after much edging back and forth I managed to get out but on swinging round to get from the petrol station exit to the main road there was a loud bang and the bathroom window was ripped clean off the van by an advertising hoarding. Dot managed to get most of the broken bits off the road before they were run over and Mick and I managed to fix it back in place, using lots of sticky tape.
The Sat Navs want us to go on a very long route, along the motorways (180 miles) but there is a much shorter way to get there (160 mils), so we decide that when we turn of the motorway the GPS will just reroute us the way we want to go. Good plan if you actually turn off onto the right road, we didn't, let me explain. We left Fécamp on the D962 to the A29 north and we planned to turn on at junction 10 and head east on the D915. What I had not accounted for was this junction 10, was after the A29 changes to the A28 and we took junction 10 on the A29, one turning too early. It took quit a long time to figure out what had gone wrong and that we were now heading back south on the A28. So we took the D919 to head over to the road we should have been on, anyway because of some new roads that were not on our maps I think it ended as a shortcut. We got on the D915 heading for the N31 and Beauvais then its the N31 to Berny-Rivière, there were also more new bypasses not on the maps. We stopped for lunch at a Mcdonalds along the way, something I would not normally think of but you do these thing on holiday. One more problem at Compiègne where the road signs are better than the GPS and another note the N31 is a very busy road.
BERNY RIVIERE
La Croix Du Vieux Pont
Rue de la Fabrique - 02290 Berny-Rivière
Once the tent was up and we got settled in, we set off to look around the site, we only got to the lakeside bar before we had to stop for a drink. It was Mick's round and he nearly gagged when he got the bill, this was going to be our most expensive beers (also it was Amstel larger something I would not normally even look at, never mind drink).
Luckily the bar closed before I could get my round in. After discussion we decided to give the Paris trip a miss as we had just had a full day travelling and did not fancy getting up too early, so me and Dot set off to reception to let them know. In the meantime someone from reception had been over to the van to see if we were going to Paris. So much for not booking on the phone, they had tickets ready for us but they were very good about us not going.
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