Day Three - Baguette turn signals

Tues 7th April 2008

Thankfully it’s getting a tad better! Yesterday we spent 6 hours driving from Calais to the town of Le Havre Bernieres, found a fab little campsite literally 200 metres from the beach and cycled into town to find food. The day was long, but the evening was just as I had envisioned as a typical night on our trip. Granted we were both still wearing winter jackets and hats but at least there wasn’t a pile of snow in sight!

After wandering around the shop trying to interpret food labels, we walked out to our bikes and realised we had more food than could fit into our tiny backpack! Clearly we had a lot to learn and I think it showed, as Bevan cycled home with a huge box of pasta in one hand and I carried a very long French baguette that did come in rather handy when making turn signals. The locals must have thought we’d already tucked into the local Normandy cider.

After a delish dinner of sausages & pasta, we strolled down to the beach to watch the sunset. Not a bad day at all.

Now is probably a good time to point out that Bevan has been doing tracking our route by uploading the coordinates from our GPS on to his website www.bevanthomson.net/roadtrip. So if you’re curious to see where we are and where we’ve been, plus some of the better photos from our adventure (since he took them) check out his site throughout the next 6 months!