Awaycation Summer 2023 France Day 1 onwards
Arrived at the Shuttle at 0646 and checked Reggie into the Pet Reception. Our first stop tonight would be a campsite in Bourg-Comin - Camping la Pointe. Only €19 a night inc EHU. Decent site, good pitches. After a stop at the Picard in Coquelles for three kilos of dogador, raw food for dogs,and then Auchun for those essentials for life - food, beer and wine, and we were off. We decided to knock the time off and take the A26. A toll road. The satnav was quoting 4.5 hours and 7.5 off toll With cruise control to be set at 100km/h on the HUD, we set off. The temp gauge showing a reasonable 25°C. A couple of stops for coffee and lunch, plus essential dog pee breaks and we exited near Laon. I had set a waypoint to a motorhome parking area close to the city wall. One road was closed with road works, but the satnav got us round. Park4Night shows the space for 8 motorhomes. The spaces are delimited by metal studs in the road. There was only one Moho there when we arrived. I did a three point tu...