Wednesday 26 March - Le Crotoy to Boulogne/St Martin

The weather finally decided to let up and we woke to a bright clear sun shiny morning and in no rush. Breakfast, serviced the van (hopefully for the last time this trip) and on our way, planning to use the coastal D925 to Berck and Boulogne although TomTom kept trying to turn us inland, probably to the D901 which is also a good road but not very scenic. We found out shortly why when we encountered works that had pretty well closed a road through one of the villages with no "Route Barre" signs we saw. Fortunately it was lunchtime and the workers were all elsewhere so we just ploughed on through!

Called in to an Intermarche just south of Boulogne as we'd been trying to find a ceramic knife, the same as we'd purchased on our autumn trip last year - Intermarche was the only major we'd not yet tried and were convinced it was there. As luck would have it we found what we were looking for, though not the exact brand, so also bought a baguette and some cakes to have with afternoon tea, and some strawberries and..... well you know how it goes! Thereafter we headed for the Centre Commerciale at Boulogne/St Martin where we'd planned to overnight before our early morning Eurotunnel tomorrow. Like City Europ used to be, this is a regularly used place for motorhomes to overnight and has multiple stores, restaurants etc. with a huge car park and no problems (we hope) with illegal immigrants trying to secrete themselves aboard for a free trip to the UK.

Which is where I'm now sitting typing this rubbish in glorious sunshine watching the comings and goings. We have of course had a look around the shopping centre, naturally making the odd purchase but that's about it for today. Early start in the morning so early night for us. We'll do a summary when we get home.