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Rules OK, esp when the Kite Festival is on, we really enjoyed that. The whole place was humming and we have never ever seen it so packed even though we have been there in July or August quite a bit, from well before we had the motorhome. Also it was red hot ! Fab firework display on the beach Easter Sat night.
We went to France on 17 April and intended to spend just a couple of days at Berck and then go wherever depending in weather, as we didn't have to come back till May 4th. In practice we spent 95% of our holiday at Berck! We went onto the aire at Bellevue (Terminus) as per normal and it was pretty full and became absolutely jam packed as the week progressed.
We had a couple of not so good days at the end of week 2 and whizzed along to Fecamp, horrific thunderstorms, quite scarey. Moved then to Mer les Bains near Le Treport for a day or two, but then the weather got warm again so we snuck back to Berck BUT in our absence, things had started to change on the Bellevue aire and contined to do so until we left last Weds!
Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice ......
Firstly the lady who had been living in a caravan up one corner of the aire for years, appeared to be no longer in residence when we first arrived on 18 April, although the roof vent on the caravan was open. I asked and the lad who collects the money said she had gone. There seemed an unusual lack of poor-looking cats .... who never bothered anyone you understand but I wouldn't have wanted em round me anyway ... but towards the end of the week after Easter week she started to appear a few days and seemed to be cleaning. Then we left, on the Thursday I think? maybe the Friday. We returned the following Sunday and the caravan had gone, but all the junk in her little compound appeared to still be there. No-one called for money on the Sunday but on Monday morning, the lad (well he's a youngish chap, but the same one as last year!) said that on Tues, the council were going to 'clean up' this side of the aire but the other side would be OK so would we like to move over there? So we said NP and moved. Mme Caravan kept coming on foot or on her bike and removing a few things at a time.
On Tues, they came and took down the entire fence that side of the aire then we went off to the supermarket. Before we did, they had turned the water off! - they didn't tell us that, did they? so on the way back from shopping, we called in at the other aire up by the lighthouse and did the necessary. Then went back to Bellevue and by this time the 2 other vans on the aire had gone and there were diggers and trenches and who knows what on the aire. We parked on the car park next door, which people do anyway when the aire is full. I should explain we were not looking for punishment but this was intriguing and we much much prefer that end of the beach, LOL
Gradually over the course of the day Mme C removed quite a lot more. She had already filled the rubbish skip single handedly the previous day, including a leisure battery - anyway the refuse collectors spotted it, removed it and left it for a different truck to come and collect it. Come Tuesday evening we saw that there was now a dotted red line painted up the car park. All this observation was going on whilst also going to the beach, walking into Berck and discussing it with other motorhomers on the carpark LOL
By Weds lunchtime when we left, they had virtually finished installing a land drain most of the way across the aire, moved the tap to it's new place, removed the old plastic grey and black water tank and completely installed and buried a new square galvanised one and built a bit of kerbing by it.
We would now like to ask any Funsters going to France soonish to call by the aire and find out what the heck they have done to it, please!
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We went to France on 17 April and intended to spend just a couple of days at Berck and then go wherever depending in weather, as we didn't have to come back till May 4th. In practice we spent 95% of our holiday at Berck! We went onto the aire at Bellevue (Terminus) as per normal and it was pretty full and became absolutely jam packed as the week progressed.
We had a couple of not so good days at the end of week 2 and whizzed along to Fecamp, horrific thunderstorms, quite scarey. Moved then to Mer les Bains near Le Treport for a day or two, but then the weather got warm again so we snuck back to Berck BUT in our absence, things had started to change on the Bellevue aire and contined to do so until we left last Weds!
Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice ......
Firstly the lady who had been living in a caravan up one corner of the aire for years, appeared to be no longer in residence when we first arrived on 18 April, although the roof vent on the caravan was open. I asked and the lad who collects the money said she had gone. There seemed an unusual lack of poor-looking cats .... who never bothered anyone you understand but I wouldn't have wanted em round me anyway ... but towards the end of the week after Easter week she started to appear a few days and seemed to be cleaning. Then we left, on the Thursday I think? maybe the Friday. We returned the following Sunday and the caravan had gone, but all the junk in her little compound appeared to still be there. No-one called for money on the Sunday but on Monday morning, the lad (well he's a youngish chap, but the same one as last year!) said that on Tues, the council were going to 'clean up' this side of the aire but the other side would be OK so would we like to move over there? So we said NP and moved. Mme Caravan kept coming on foot or on her bike and removing a few things at a time.
On Tues, they came and took down the entire fence that side of the aire then we went off to the supermarket. Before we did, they had turned the water off! - they didn't tell us that, did they? so on the way back from shopping, we called in at the other aire up by the lighthouse and did the necessary. Then went back to Bellevue and by this time the 2 other vans on the aire had gone and there were diggers and trenches and who knows what on the aire. We parked on the car park next door, which people do anyway when the aire is full. I should explain we were not looking for punishment but this was intriguing and we much much prefer that end of the beach, LOL
Gradually over the course of the day Mme C removed quite a lot more. She had already filled the rubbish skip single handedly the previous day, including a leisure battery - anyway the refuse collectors spotted it, removed it and left it for a different truck to come and collect it. Come Tuesday evening we saw that there was now a dotted red line painted up the car park. All this observation was going on whilst also going to the beach, walking into Berck and discussing it with other motorhomers on the carpark LOL
By Weds lunchtime when we left, they had virtually finished installing a land drain most of the way across the aire, moved the tap to it's new place, removed the old plastic grey and black water tank and completely installed and buried a new square galvanised one and built a bit of kerbing by it.
We would now like to ask any Funsters going to France soonish to call by the aire and find out what the heck they have done to it, please!
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People there have a funny accent, when they talk you could think they are suffering teeth ache lol , a french can hardly understand them , a bit like geordie!They pronounce all the "s" like "ch" so "siens"(his) is pronounced chiens(which is in fact dogs). you get lost vey easily. But it is dead hilarious! These people are called Ch'tis. If you want to have an idea , you can have a look at the advert of the film. 
)! But after a few years without having heard english ...i had a few difficulties to get Tick59:Blush::Blush:
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