Campsites,France #13of16

The campsite in Nancy was rather easy to find. We arrived there rather early, at about 4:00 PM. They have at least a hundred trailers parked here for the winter, the cost is only pennies per day. We paid less than $2 for our night of camping.

We camped in a four-star campsite in Sarlat one night, that cost $11.00 complete with store and swimming pool. We didn’t need those items. Next time we were in Sarlat, the price was 81 FF ($14), so we went on to another. There were several in the area, but campsites are difficult to find in this part of France.

A campsite, one of several, was easy to find in Nice. We stopped to see Brigitte and Paul, the people we met in Morocco last year. Brigitte’s parents own and operate the Coco Chanel shop, and Paul and Brigitte run another shop, a few doors away, on Paradis, the main shopping/walking street in Nice.

We camped in mid-afternoon and later took a walk around the town of Cour Cheverny. We saw an antique shop that really looked like an antique itself. It looked like it hadn’t been open since the goods inside were new.

We found the very nice campsite in Tours, not far from downtown. Next door, in a tent, there was a young man from the US, who has lived in Paris for several years. He can’t imagine we won’t stay here for a week at least. We talked to him for awhile, and found we have seen more of this town in one day, than he has seen in the week he has been here.

In a town near Rouen, we saw ladies who were using a shoulder yoke, to carry two buckets of something. We then found a nice quiet campsite near Rouen. The Ste-Jeanne d’Arc church is built on the spot where Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in 1431. Rouen’s Notre Dame Cathedral is the subject of the famous paintings by Monet, called “The Cathedrals.”

Emmy’s Sister Hannah and Cousin Toni were with us in Obernai, one year. We found a hotel near the RR Station for them at $25 for the night. We stayed in the Obernai campsite, which is located next to a park, at the edge of town.

The Municipal campsite in Bar le Duc was closed for the season, but was still being used. The electric circuit breaker kept tripping, so we used all our sleeping bags and got along OK. The previous night we needed the fan to keep us cool.