St Valery 2 - Judgement Day

Not much to report today. I'm still in St Valery. I've decided the two St Valerys are about even with each other.

I washed my clothes this morning. This camp ground has washing machines but I needed a jeton (money token) so I went and got one from the office and by the time the grumpy cow in the office had given me one both machines were taken. I sat there for maybe 1 minute before deciding to do my washing in one of the tubs. I also nicked someone's laundry detergent to help. Both machines broke which looked really suspicious as I was the only one there when it happened, but it wasn't me. So those people spent half the day trying to find someone to fix the machines while I'd done something resembling washing my clothes. I made them wet, that's for certain. Detergent was involved.

I spent the morning looking around the port. Safest harbour on the Normandy Coast. Bet you didn't know that. They have some bloody safe harbours here too. Bloody safe.

There were markets on so I wandered through. The food looked fantastic - lots of cheese, lots of meat. The rest of it was the usual cheap clothes. Picture walking through Primark but every fourth rack has cheese. Primark kind of smells that way anyway.

I found a pile of rocks that has water attached (a beach?) but the breeze had picked up and it was a bit chilly so I didn't swim. There were people having a picnic on the rock pile which bamboozled me. There were tables and chairs 5 metres away on the lovely foreshore but no, let's sit on the rocks.

I fed myself some more seafood. They served it on a shell. They serve a lot of stuff on shells here. I'm tempted to start a shell shop. It was only 3 euros and pretty tasty. Some people are dead against getting cheap seafood from a patisserie but I'm all for it!

I've been lazing by the pool reading a book all afternoon. Which explains why this blog post consists of rambling about washing and shells.

Tomorrow I'm off to Étretat. The road looks windy, which suggests hilly. It is only 50km on the main road so maybe 55-60 on the road I'm taking. There is a festival on there. Don't know what it's about as I don't know French, but I'll find out tomorrow.

Then the D day beaches, which is what I came for. Looking forward to that.