Not such a good day today. It started with rain in the night. As we were packing up the wet tent, a guy started cutting the hedges in our campsite while we were still there. This pissed me off. Why couldn’t he do the vacant camp sites first? I’m not sure why he was so stupid but Mike reckons it’s because it’s a small village and there is too much inbreeding here.
I politely asked him to chop hedges elsewhere as it was noisy (communicated by putting my fingers in my ears). He seemed happy with this.
We crossed the Seine on the ferry. This was a far nicer way to cross than cycling over that steep bridge.
Crossing the Seine by ferry.
We decided on a short ride today as it was threatening to rain, and we needed a hotel to recharge all our stuff. We navigated to a town that had a few hotels in it. It was a reasonably easy ride of about 26 kms to the town, but all the hotels were at the top of a very steep and nasty hill.
We persevered and pushed our bikes up 1.5 kms to the nearest one which was an Ibis. “Sorry we are full”. bugger. So we went around the corner to the next hotel. “Sorry we are full”. double bugger. We pushed our bikes up that ridiculously steep hill for nothing!
The next town was 20kms away so we navigated to that. The hotel was closed. bugger! The next town was only 7 kms away and it also had a tourist office. Feeling positive we cycled to the next town.
Thankfully the tourist office was still open. The girl in the tourist office phoned the hotel for us to make a booking. The hotel was full. So she phoned a few more hotels on our route. All of them also full. We have had this problem before in France when heading inland.
It was after 5pm at this stage and we were getting a bit pissed off. I saw a train station as we arrived into town. I asked the girl where the train goes. “Dieppe, it takes 20 minutes”. Decision made, we would catch the train to Dieppe. Back on the coast there were be hotels.
The trains here aren’t very cycle tourist friendly and we had to push our heavily loaded bikes up steps to get them on the train. Luckily the guards helped us with this. 20 minutes later we were in Dieppe and found ourselves a hotel on the waterfront. phew. what a day!
Our route cycled so far:
Just read it all tonight, mind you ang had told me the toilet story LOL. Go you two energy bubbles. France sounding great, working here energy draining drag oh well.