Well it was touch and go, I bored every funster to death waiting for our van to finish in time, we missed 3 deadlines !! Then it was the trauma of the dislocated shoulder, yep, I moaned about that on here too
However, as first time 'france funsters' we did really well. Some of the Aires were dire, especially the first one after the bridge, on Ile de Re, some were amazing..... Dinan !! We used a lot of ACSI sites due to shoulder issue and found it a thoroughly good deal, stayed at some gems and will order next years book too. We learned that a rough plan was good, but that to stray from it lead to amazing landscapes and experiences, we'll do that again.
We had one not so nice experience with a British female, we arrived at Roche de Bernarde, an aire next to a camp site and marina. Arrived 10 mins fore closing, in the dark, very tired and dirty after 6 hot hours driving. Too late for the code for the showers etc, saw British lady, asked very politely if she knew the code, yes she did. Would she give it to us ? No. I said we would welcome a hot shower and were tired, she said well there's public loos down the road !!!!! Fortunately a lovely British couple gave us the code just a few mins later.
We've loved our trip, enjoyed Le Shuttle immensely and will be going again in June for 2 weeks and Sept for 3 weeks. So this was just an update and a thank you to all funsters who've helped with conversion equipment advice, travel advice, aire/acsi advise and just general support and a good laugh. We'll get our funster sticker next year and try and make a few rallies. Really lovely to be part of such a wonderful online community. Thanx very much
However, as first time 'france funsters' we did really well. Some of the Aires were dire, especially the first one after the bridge, on Ile de Re, some were amazing..... Dinan !! We used a lot of ACSI sites due to shoulder issue and found it a thoroughly good deal, stayed at some gems and will order next years book too. We learned that a rough plan was good, but that to stray from it lead to amazing landscapes and experiences, we'll do that again.
We had one not so nice experience with a British female, we arrived at Roche de Bernarde, an aire next to a camp site and marina. Arrived 10 mins fore closing, in the dark, very tired and dirty after 6 hot hours driving. Too late for the code for the showers etc, saw British lady, asked very politely if she knew the code, yes she did. Would she give it to us ? No. I said we would welcome a hot shower and were tired, she said well there's public loos down the road !!!!! Fortunately a lovely British couple gave us the code just a few mins later.
We've loved our trip, enjoyed Le Shuttle immensely and will be going again in June for 2 weeks and Sept for 3 weeks. So this was just an update and a thank you to all funsters who've helped with conversion equipment advice, travel advice, aire/acsi advise and just general support and a good laugh. We'll get our funster sticker next year and try and make a few rallies. Really lovely to be part of such a wonderful online community. Thanx very much