After we had a look around the Australian War Memorial yesterday we motored for about 20 mins untill we came to Doullens. We moored up for the night at a free Aires. The official part of the Aire was full so we parked in the carpark opposite, where there were a few other 'spillover' vans !
Before we left this morning we had a walk around town, Thursday was also market day ...
Doullens' claim to fame is that in the town hall General Foch was given overall command of the allied forces on the western front ...
The room is laid out as it was nearly 100 years ago. It was quite strange as there were no guides nor security - nothing! You just walked around and checked it out ...
It is still the town hall....
But all the business is done downstairs ...
Upstairs is just as it was ...
We couldn't take the boys in so whilst Elaine went in for a sticky (beak) I played with my baguette!
We then headed off for Calais, stopping off to spend the remaining Euros on a few crates of French wine and filling the van with fuel before we return to UK prices.
Elaine took a pic of our Euro route (not presented precisely, she tells me!). I would love to turn around and do it all again.
Out travels are represented by the blue line ...
The red arrow is our present position right on the harbour front at Calais. It's another Aire, but it cost 7 Euros for the night ...
There are about 50 vans here, all awaiting ferries and channel tunnel crossings. Elaine reckons it is just like a big waiting room ...
The beach is 2 mins away, and today it was packed as it is a bit of a scorcher of day....lovely!
We spent our remaining few Euros on a bucket of Moules-Frites and a couple of beers ...
When we got back to the van I had to remove 20 Romanians from the roof and a couple of Poles tied to the axle.
So as the sun sets over Calais so the sun sets on our Euro mainland adventure ...and what an adventure it has been, absolutely fantastic.
Early tomorrow we are going through the tunnel back to the land of warm beer. It will be fun to catch up with family and our friends. As per usual we have no firm plans except Manchester late July and then bonnie Scotland.
That was one hell of a road trip. I don't think we are that adventurous, but would love to do it ourselves.
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