Today’s Update - TET day 3-
Headed south on the motorway after a huge electrical storm last night (which meant the trails would have been very slippery) and stopped at motorway services that had Somme in its name (lots of electric charging stations).
Again reflecting that my grandfather got buried in WW1 - after a shell and was trapped - but survived, otherwise I might not be here! I felt the dirt in my hands beside the English cemetery and felt emotional again.
So I had lost my mojo after day 2 - today I found it again after and if my grandfather could survive the Somme then so could I. So I turned off the motorway (TOLL cost a mere 3.5 Euro) as I could see the TET France route on my GPS and started following the green line again. Appropriately I started the route again within sight of the English Cemetery.
The route wound its way through the French countywide, lots of freshly cut hay fields and small villages most with churches and war memorials. The locals looked fairly stunned to see me and farm dogs chased me as I rode through small farms. This remote feeling or a sense that few have been this way before is why I chose this journey.
Got to well past 6 pm again! and I was starting to get pretty tired so I stopped and googled camping and set my Sat Nav to the closest camp site.
Feel ripped off no free wi-fi no restaurant, & no pool and the most expensive so far at 10.75 Euro (had to drive back 4 km to buy food and my fuel took 4 x cards to accept payment - but also no poms and no tourists - that’s worth a million dollars!
Even the camp site managers speak limited English - second time in a day google translate has come in handy! Got to get my tent up & shower before I get eaten by mozzies ...