The Fridays Tour de Normandie 2015

[frank9755]

Acommodation in Dieppe sorted. We'll be staying at a B&B, where a double including breakfast is 80 euros (their email address is a bit hard to come by, but I'm happy to share it)

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_..._Seine_Maritime_Haute_Normandie_Normandy.html

Looks nice!
I've already booked into the Egg, which is where we stayed the previous time, when it was an Etap. It was clean, cheap and cheerful, and they have a big storeroom for bikes.

 

[wanda2010]

Egg it is.

 

[velovoice]

Egg for us, as well. Gosh, dontcha just love the exchange rates right now?

 

[StuAff]

Shouldn't it be Oeuf?

 

[StuAff]

Not sure of my road to Rouen just yet- direct routes are only about 80km so I might stick with you lot until a convenient point to head south. I'm not exactly going to be in a rush. SNCF tickets should be on sale next week.

 

[rvw]

We're in the Hotel de la Plage - just round a couple of corners from the Egg.

 

[wanda2010]

We're in the Hotel de la Plage - just round a couple of corners from the Egg.

Wot you got against eggs?

 

[frank9755]

We're in the Hotel de la Plage - just round a couple of corners from the Egg.

I remember being quite surprised to see the strip of beach-front hotels along that bit of the coast. I'd not realised that Dieppe had a history as a resort, but I guess at one time it would be one of the places that Parisians went for their seaside holidays. And it's aged rather better than most UK equivalents!

 

[User482]

Shouldn't it be Oeuf?

Why do French people only have one egg for breakfast?

 

[frank9755]

That strip looks just like Hove Lawns to me.

Hove Lawns has probably also aged better than User482' jokes most UK seaside resorts.

 

[StuAff]

I remember that joke from Grine Jill (as Alan Coren decided it should be called)...

 

[frank9755]

No. Get on with your work.

 

[User482]

Hove Lawns has probably also aged better than User482' jokes most UK seaside resorts.

I think it's great that we're going to have a few days in each other's company, n'est-ce pas?

 

[mmmmartin]

one of the places that Parisians went for their seaside holidays

It might have been where English folk went for a bit of the exotic: the name of the Hotel Windsor struck me as odd until I realised there was probably an English tourist trade larger than the one nowadays. The local council tries to encourage us to go there by helping out with The Dieppe Raid, a series of audax rides in the summer, when the "beard and sandals" count in the town rockets off the scale

 

[srw]

When I was young I remember going to Europe on the boat train from Victoria, to Newhaven and Dieppe and then on southwards by train.

I have a vague feeling it was the trip when we went on to Tuebingen in Southern Germany, only because I think I remember seeing Cologne cathedral from the train.

I think the Avenue Verte out of Dieppe follows what was originally the main line between London and Paris, and which was closed in the French equivalent of the Beeching cuts.