An early start to a
bright day making travelling in the sunshine more pleasant. Usual
morning routine before we were under way 10.00-ish back onto the N10
where once again all we had for company were trucks. Needing fuel we
paused at the Auchan hypermarket in Poitiers, where police were
stopping cars but just waved us through. Surprisingly the fuel
consumption was not as bad as we had feared as we were pushing
somewhat harder than we normally do.
But what was annoying
was the tyre pressure monitor system kept warning us of a deflating
tyre even though we stopped to check all was okay. So when we stopped
for lunch we changed the battery, thinking that would cure it. No
such luck this time, however, and as the readings were fluctuating
wildly it was obviously a sensor fault. We finally just switched the
whole thing off!
We were making
excellent progress, helped of course by the complete lack of traffic
– it felt really weird to see absolutely no-one around. Late
afternoon we felt we had come far enough so planned to overnight at
Pont de L'Arche, where there is also a vet 50 yards from the aire,
but on arrival found it closed. A dilemma; should we try to find
another locally or push on to Le Cretoy which we knew was open. With
an expected journey time of an hour and a half we felt happy enough
to press on and shortly passed through Rouen then onto the motorway
as it started to get dark, not helped by the sky clouding over.
No problems though the
last half an hour seemed to drag but we arrived just before dark to
an almost empty aire – this place is capable of holding 100 units
but tonight had just three so plenty of choice! We'll overnight here
then in the morning pop along to Rue where hopefully the vet is open
and we can get Jamies Pet Passport certification then re-arange the
tunnel booking.
Journey today 359
miles, not bad! We've seen very few motorhomes, just a couple of
Brits and Germans plus a couple of Brit registered cars. We did see a
Swedish m/h – boy has he got a way to go!
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