Well, we made it! On Thursday, P&O announced that they were suspending all Dover - Calais crossings for "some days". After waiting for two years to be able to go to mainland Europe, we weren't prepared to find that we couldn't get to France, so we booked a crossing with Eurotunnel.
After visiting our son and family in Surrey for the weekend, we travelled to the Folkestone terminal this morning and we given the offer of an earlier train. We arrived in France an hour earlier than we expected and were in our campsite, La Fontaine des Clercs in Montreuil by early afternoon. The site has a lovely view over the river to what must have been a very large watermill with a number of mill wheels in the fast-flowing river.
We spent the evening enjoying a meal up in the town above the campsite. Le Cocquepot has a number of plat starters (smoked fish, cheese etc) and only a choice of three main courses - Marmites (casseroles) of fish, meat or vegetables. We both had the fish Marmite and it was excellent both in quality and price.
Photo: The mill at La Fontaine des Clercs.
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