Devall Travels

From the Baie de la Somme services it was a short run to the campsite at La Mollière. We checked in quite quickly and drove round the one way system to emplacement 136 where our mobil-home is placed. As Reggie takes ownership of anywhere he stays, he gets protective and defends. This means there is liable to be barking. I asked for a spot with little passing traffic.  That's what we have. After unpacking we had a walk across the road to the dunes. We had imagined the sea to be there. Wrong. We also climbed this 60 foot sand dune when a walk along to the west would have seen us walk through a gap on a path.... It was good exercise and we were the only ones daft enough to do it. For dinner we ate in on Carrefour supermarket microwave lasagna. Yum.

A bit of a fraught start with the car seemingly needing to be bigger than it is. In the end the Tardis effect worked and the boot/trunk was full and half the back seat not occupied by Reggie was packed too. Once we had filled the tank and checked in to find we had an hour delay we had time to let Reggie have a run about in the dog exercise area. Our original departure time was 1020. The huge board by where I parked said it was now 1050. We rushed into the terminal to get a coffee. Huge queues so made do with a crappy machine. We should have bothered. We sailed through passports, UK and French, and into Lane 12. It was 1014. Our place for the next 50 minutes was that queue. It rained a few times and that 1050  crossing faded. Almost an hour was up and we moved up to the next queue, tantalisingly close to a train. On the down ramp we could see another train loading in parallel. 1120 came and went. At 1141 we finally wheezed out of the station. Delays...