Bay of the Somme

It's the last day of our tour of France. Tomorrow we head back home. There are lots of well marked out circular bicycle routes on tarmac paths here but we didn't want to do anything to strenuous.

Instead, we decided to have a drive around and do some exploring. We visited St. Valery-sur-Somme which is on the south side of the Somme Bay and is a very pretty town which has a stop for the local stream train. Here, the engine is rotated on a turn-table to head back up the track. You can walk on the track and it's amazing the amount of people standing in the way completely oblivious to the hissing, spitting train heading towards them. We also watched as a woman fell off her bike while riding over the track. Lucky the train wasn't around.

We then went to the other side of the bay to Le Crotoy. Easy to get to but we completely missed the signs to the aire de camping car (the motorhome car park) twice, which isn't good because Le Crotoy it made up of narrow, one-way streets.

Idea for a new new kids book; Where's Herman

Eventually, we found the aire de camping car. It is massive with hundreds of campers. I'm amazed how we could have missed it, it's the largest camper park I've ever seen. You can see it from space!

We spent our time in Le Crotoy walking around, eating ice-cream and sitting on the lovely beach. The weather was bright and hot and so much so that Zoe managed to catch too much sun. She was very pink but she hasn't burnt thank goodness.