Start of the Summer Holiday 2011

This is another year of camping in France.  We start in the Limousin, move to the Ardeche, spend a couple of days in Lausanne with my cousin Penny and her family, and then spend our last five nights' camping in the Alsace area.

Today we left home around 10.30am to get to Dover for 1.40pm to check in for our 2.10pm ferry to Calais.  We dined in the on-board Langham's Brasserie (a welcome escape from screaming kids), getting into Calais around 4.30pm.

From Calais we drove around 140 miles to Rouen where we were booked into the Hotel D'Angleterre.  We went out for dinner and then had a quick drink in a bar before a fairly early night.