Tuesday 9th July 2019
Up early and set off almost immediately onto the A6. Despite a gentle headwind, we made good progress and made our way across Paris leaving the grand city at its north western corner, through St. Denis. I will not bore you with the details of the next event, suffice to say we had a small disagreement with a young lady in a little Toyota.
We were indicating left, she wanted to go right, shot round in front of us and clipped the front nearside wing of our car. We carried on, unaware of the actual hit, we felt nothing, but she appeared alongside us some 5 minutes later and signalled for us to stop. We did and she became quite animated and accused us of hitting her. There was a small scrape mark on the front nearside of our car and similar on the rear offside of hers. We exchanged details, she being convinced we had hit her. I pointed out we have a dashcam but that made no impression on her. On examining the dashcam on the pc later you can plainly see her come from our left and pull immediately in front of us but the collision was so minor we didn't think she had hit us. We parted company amicably but now an hour and a half behind schedule.
Oops, just realised I have bored you with the details, sorry.
Now there are two camp sites in Nesles-la-Vallee, half a mile apart, and I had keyed in Nesles on the sat-nav so, when we saw a sign saying Camping Nesles-la-Vallee, we took it to be the one I had booked. WRONG!!
We drove up a long and winding road for about 2 miles until we came to this really run down looking site. Doesn't look like the pictures on the web, I said, but at least they've got a restaurant, by now we're tired and hungry. WRONG AGAIN!!
It transpired we were at the wrong site altogether. The old fella who owned the site was pleasant and we had a laugh together. He wanted us to stay but we told him we had paid for 5 nights at the other site. However, we decided to stay this one night as we were just too tired to turn around.
We slept well despite the knowledge we would be on the move again in the morning.
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