{"id":16336,"date":"2016-10-20T06:15:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T19:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=16336"},"modified":"2022-04-28T11:32:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T01:32:17","slug":"au-revoir-france-2016-%f0%9f%87%ab%f0%9f%87%b7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=16336","title":{"rendered":"Au Revoir, France 2016 \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Travelled : 120 kilometres from Neufch\u00e2tel-en-Bray to Watten, Nord de Calais<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visited : Watten<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stayed : Aire de Camping Car Watten, free. Water and electricity extra but we didn’t need it.  N50.83139 E.2.20879<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After a very quiet night, it’s a late start in camper car world \ud83c\udf0e.  When we finally do get going, all the neighbours are out and we all start chatting again.  Finally about mid-day we continue our travels.  Stopping at Abbeville for a quick shop and a late lunch in a car park, we continue on to Watten, about 30 kilometres from Calais.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The aire in Watten is free, with a nice view of the Canal. Only 10 minutes walk into the centre-ville and 30 minutes to the Chunnel\/Ferry Terminal ticks all the boxes \ud83d\udce6.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A spot the Hymer photo from the bridge across the Canal de la Colme, in Watten.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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So we wander up into the village. The Church of Saint Gilles proves to be open and worth a look.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Pam lights a candle in a small side chapel designed in the Grotto style.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Looking at the alter and the main stain glass window at the Church of Saint-Gilles.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

So we find a little tavern with free wifi and have a couple of farewell drinks to our favourite country …….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So up at reasonable time we arrive in Calais 30 minutes later and roll onto train for Folkstone.  The Chunnel is a wonderful service, 35 minutes in and out, travelling in the comfort of our own camper.  We crank up the coffee \u2615\ufe0f machine and enjoy a cappuccino and read the paper.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

However whilst we stop to pay the \u20ac1.80 toll on A26, I look down at the dash and the battery light suddenly appears.  No point stopping so we continue onto Calais and the Chunnel Station.  I quick look whilst waiting in the carpark doesn’t reveal the problem.  So we drive the Hymer on the train \ud83d\ude82, hoping for a solution in England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The M20 traffic comes to a halt 5 miles from the Dartford Tunnel and the next 5 miles take over an hour.  After 3 months away, you tend to forget the horrendous traffic around London.  Finally off the M25 we find ourselves driving alongside a mobile mechanic van.  He passes us we pass him, he turns, we turn heading in the same direction.  I finally see it as an omen and give him a wave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Four hours later we have a new more powerful alternator fitted and the Hymer is on the road again.  On the road as we chat away, we ponder the drama of the alternator failing a day earlier, having to fix it in France \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 and possibly missing our train.  Lastly the A$ is so strong against B\u00a3 took some of the sting out of it.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Michael and Pam<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Travelled : 120 kilometres from Neufch\u00e2tel-en-Bray to Watten, Nord de Calais Visited : Watten Stayed : Aire de Camping Car Watten, free. Water and electricity extra but we didn’t need it.  N50.83139 E.2.20879 After a very quiet night, it’s a late start in camper car world \ud83c\udf0e.  When we finally do get going, all the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[91,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-16336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-breakdown","9":"tag-french-villages","10":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16336"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18011,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16336\/revisions\/18011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}