Sunday, June 23, 2013

Welcome to France!

God I thought it was going to be warmer over here ! We drove a short distance to Graveline to stay the night in the aire de service there and to top up with cheap gas. Quite a bit cheaper than England!
   This was our first night in the van that Andy has loaned us and which we had decked out as a sleeper. It's very cosy and we slept well but when we woke the air mattress had gone down on us!
  ( pause while my depraved mates make comment ) no it wasn't French Ash.
 We laughed ourselves silly and swore to replace it tomorrow. 
   Today we headed slowly south through the little villages of northern France, pretty as a picture with their flowers and their decorated roundabouts. Stopped at a  vide grenier, ( town garage sale) and bought a few things for the van
  Tonight we are in a hotel in Bethune. The salsa dancing is in the town square and the belfry behind them was the only building left standing in the city after being flattened by the Germans in WW1
 The other photo is a hotel clothed dryer!
   

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