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Mamers again

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Clear Sky, 17°C

Left home at 0530, uneventful journey to tunnel (thankfully), got the 0820 and again uneventful crossing. During the crossing decided on the west coast Bordeaux/Biarritz. Plotted a course for Alencon as being somewhere on the way.

Stopped at the Baie Somme motorway aire very easy and great when not busy, interesting viewpoint if you want the see the Somme area.

Stopped again at a lay by, decided to try Mamers aire, arriving to beautiful sunshine, so hot changed to shorts.

Walked Geza, very keen all of a sudden on walking, then setup BBQ.

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Saint-Gengoux-le-National

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Arrived at Saint-Gengoux-le-National aire, very nice right on a cycle track route vert, near a town with bars and cafes and shops, there are toilet, and waste facilities.  Electric and fresh water not available when we were there broken.

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Fidjcamping, France 2016

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Arrived evening at Fidjcamping, open but no one around fgolowed the insturctyiomn outside offoce and found a spot with the 2nd most powerful water point.  Site appears to be undergoing some renovation.

Pleasant spot would use again bit tight to negotiate the on site road and pitches but once on hardstanding and most facilities, proper MH service point.

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Dover Chaos, 2016

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Supposed to get the late Ferry crossing to Calais via Dover and DFDS, but due to French passport control, Dover Port Authority and UKHighways ended up starnded along with thousands of others on the M20.

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St.Emillion Yelloh!, day 6

8.6.16, L’Ocean to St.Emillion Yelloh!, via Blaye.

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The previous evening we had picked out sites and Aires in Blaye, Montendre and
around St Emillion. We managed to leave at 11:00 a record on this holiday, the
MH facilities at L’Ocean very good almost as good as Mammers.

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L’Ocean, Chattillion Plage, day 5

7.6.16 Rouge Gorge to L’Ocean, Chattillion PLage (La Rochelle)

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MH facilities at Rouge Gorge crap, just rubbish, everything is there but rundown
and rubbish, compared to Aires and other sites even UK is better.

ACSI site chosen we set off ignored the Route barree in 5.5 km as we were
turning off in 5.5 km but as we discovered their 5.5km was less than our and we
could not get to the turning. After a longish detour we set off via tolls to
the Coast, it was warming up nicely the cab aircon now being a necessity rather
than a toy.

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Rouge Gorge, day 4

6.6.16 Rouge Gorge

Awoke and decided nice sunny day so decided to stay also moved the van to make
better use of the pitch and the sun. Most people left this day and the site
although not empty was sparsely populated. We walked into the Town and saw the
Minor Basillica built in 1888. Beer and Coffee or 2 in the Le Refuge bar behind
the basillica. We met and got speaking with a couple from the same site been
there for 4 days leaving tomorrow, nothng special just a pleasnt couple been
comming to FRance for years for 6 weeks at a time and still have little or no
French, no wonder the French despair of our inability.

Couple more walks around the lakes etc…

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St. Laurent sur Serve, day 3

5.6.16 Mamers to St. Laurent sur Serve

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After 2 aires we wanted to try and ACSI site paid the money bought the book got
the card wanted some value, Jacqui picked out 2 this being a method have plan A
and plan B, I checked out the Aires and picked a couple just in case. WE had
wanted to go via Angers but the Sites and Aires left us uninspired and we
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