Day Seventy-six 29.5.05 RAINED! RAINED! RAINED! And RAINED! The open air washing facilities don't seem quite so romantic today and we are obviously nearer England. Day Seventy-seven 30.5.05 We packed up for the last time this morning to travel the short distance to Le Harve. The plan was to stay in the port overnight to get the ferry in the morning at 9.30am. We arrived in Le Harve about mid day and went to Auchan to buy booze ...

Day Seventy-five 28.5.05 We took the short drive to Giverny and the house and gardens of Claude Monet. We arrived in good time despite the Saturday traffic and the where to park the van fiasco. There was a short queue to get into the gardens and we read the ticket price board and discovered that the entry fee was fifteen euros each! We thought this was very expensive but decided we may not be passing this way again and it would be a shame to miss it. The...

Day Seventy-three 26.5.05 Most of the day was taken travelling Rambouillet. We took the N roads which enabled us to view the countryside as we went along. The plan is to camp here and then take a trip to Chartres tomorrow and spend some time exploring the area and Foret de Rambouillet. Versailles is also within easy reach but we have both been there a couple of times so will probably give that a miss. The site is a municiple one and the facilities ar...

Day Sixty-eight 21.5.05 We drove to France today though the Pyrenees, as soon as we got near them the weather started to turn from lovely sunshine to overcast and a lot cooler. We were heading from Perpignan to a site on the coast at St-Cyprien-Plage. We found the site by chance and pulled in not realising it was like Center Parcs. This would be ok but it was expensive and included within the price was various forms of 'entertainment'. This of cou...

Day Sixty-four 17.5.05 We met Sina and Anna at 11am and went to Pego to open a bank account, this was relatively straight forward and after this we went for lunch at Bar Daniels for lunch. We popped into see Bill (The Estate Agent) to confirm our plans and then onto Denia to investigate getting a N.I.E form to enable us to buy in Spain. Unfortunately the office is only open in the morning so we went to the supermarket to get some lovely prawns for dinn...