St Malo or bust today. Over 100 miles anyway. The plan was to go to an Aire there or nearby and we needed to fill up today. The service point at the Aire here looks particularly unsavoury, and it is pouring with rain. So we set off with windscreen washers on full speed feeling rather low and realising this is the end of our blue sky 4 months! At midday I find an Aire off the motorway by a lake and we stop for a wet walk and water top up. NO. can't find the water. Actually it is hidden in a small cupboard between the large green bins on the other side of the Aire to where everyone parks. Jc fiddles about with the hose and is quite grumpy seeing as he has water dripping off everything and his new now old shoes are covered in mud. I hear some noises in the garage and some swearing. Apparently the screw adapter fitting for the hose is on the tap at the camp site in Lanton where we were 3 nights ago. It seems this is not going to be a good day.
I remember there is a Super u supermarche down the road. They are usually sited alongside a Bricolage, so up anchor and park up in the massive car park. Jc has gone ahead of me and I am accosted by an English couple asking if we are going back to the Aire, as it wasn't raining when they left their van there and walked to the supermarket.
So having bought much needed item and a bottle of Gin to calm the nerves, we are off with 2 extra passengers who live in Chatham. What a small world. They have good friends who live in Whitstable but can't remember their names!
After some lunch in Wishstream, watching the rain, we set off. But after an hour we are all fed up and whilst it was St Malo or bust. Everyone is now voting for the latter. We decide on Tadem next to Dinan. A medieval town on the river Ranche and 25 miles closer than St Malo. There is a camp site there by the river. Unfortunately, the port of Dinan through which we have to travel, (according to Jane), Is having major road works. So there is not just the grey cement everywhere but because of the rain is has turned to sludge. Also, there are notices on the entry to the village saying ROUTE BARRIER 100 metres, etc although it never was BARRIERED so we made it through. (probably because it is a weekend)The site is on the river, I agree but it is on the slopes of the river in sort of terraces. The walkway to the river is mud, slide, and slop and the pitches are at an angle such that our poor Wishstream flippers couldn't cope. (flippers being the bright yellow wedges that are used to try and level the van. So called cos when I first saw them, I thought they were a pair of flippers). So JC slept with his feet in the air, and I rolled out into the kitchen sink easier than usual.
The ladies loos were locked as there weren't enough people in. So I had the pleasure of walking past the boys using the urinals to the cubicles if I wanted to use them. WHICH I CHOSE NOT TO. And this is a 4 star site!
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