We make good use of the free electricity to charge up everything with a battery. Our French companion leaves while we are having breakfast. It's been a peaceful little stop even if it is like parking at the end of our road at home.

We set a cross country route towards the village of St Fraimbault, stopping briefly in the first village we come to, Passais le Conception, to use a cash point and get bread and a couple slices of cheese and tomato flan for lunch. A curious thing on this trip; cash points and fuel pumps accept our cards as usual, but in almost every shop, even the giant supermarkets, none of our debit cards have worked.

On we go through pretty farmland, occasionally dusty with tractors tilling and harrowing, until we reach St Fraimbault. It is listed as one of France's lovliest 'Ville Fleuri' or flower town, but we are too early to see it as it looked in the pictures. The chap in the TO tells Ali that July and August is when it is at its best. For now there are lots of newly turned over borders and some perrenials around the village pond but it is still a verry attractive little town.

Passing through Gorron we stop for milk which Ali couldn't get in Passais le Conception then we stop in another village, Colombiers du Plessis, to eat our lunch. While we are stopped we phone to book our ferry home.

From here we leave the country roads and drive on smooth, straight main roads, still pretty and with plenty of ups and downs, around Vitre, and on to Messac.

The aire is one we stayed in on our way to Sicily last year. There are a few vans in, pleasure boats down in the marina and a variety of trains passing on the adjacent railway.

The sun has shone all day and it is still 20C by the time the last train for the day goes past around 21:45