Dieppe 31st March 2019

Today I drove down to Dieppe with a couple of stops on the way. One 'comfort break' was at a stop overlooking a huge salt marsh that was being used to graze sheep.

I ended up in St-Martin d'Aliermont in a public motorhome stop which is supplied by the council. There were only 3 spaces, but it was deserted. Unfortunately the waste disposal points were out of action, so I'll have to find somewhere when I leave. A couple more vans arrived while I was there. I called my mum to wish her a happy mother's day! I decided to stay for 2 nights as I was feeling rough with this cough and cold. I'm sure that the people in the vans next to me could hear me coughing and sneezing, and obviously Ollie would jump about 3 foot in the air every time I sneezed! Saturday night (well, the afternoon and night really), I watched rugby on my laptop using my phone as a mobile hotspot. I fell asleep towards the end of the third match and managed to spill red wine on the duvet and the laptop. I switched it off, and like the super IT expert that I am, I put it aside until the morning. It's a nice little village with some lovely old buildings (they seem to be everywhere!). The camping stop is next door to the local (amateur?) football club, and on the Sunday they had a tournament so there were people coming and going all day (at least after the market had gone from the car park (7am until 1pm). I dug out my tools, and the picnic table and spent a happy hour taking the laptop to bits and drying it out, and then re-assembling it. Thank goodness it works fine after the red wine incident. (I'm typing this on it!) I bought some bread and Camembert for my lunch, and had an early night. I was out like a light, but kept waking up to cough or sneeze.