The Fridays tour - Normandy 15th-22nd June

[srw]

There will be at least one car at the chateau, and two people who will be arriving early enough pour visiter le supermarche et acheter les necessites lourds.

 

[redfalo]

Or just possibly rinsing stuff out by hand in the washbasin, using soap? It's the low-tech, lightweight traveller option.

... which quickly becomes less attractive when proper washing maschines are at hand. I'll probably bring a bike trailer as well, BTW.

 

[srw]

There will be at least one car at the chateau, and two people who will be arriving early enough pour visiter le supermarche et acheter les necessites lourds.

In other words - give us a shopping list and we'll pick it up.

 

[dellzeqq]

sorry - I should have set this out earlier - apologies, especially to Stephen and Rachel

on Saturday morning, Susie and I will wake up in another chateau, just down the road. We'll leave our luggage and head northwest on the roads north of the D22 to recce the route we'll be taking on the Friday. We'll then head northeast and meet the early ferry at Cherbourg. A car will take the luggage from this ferry, and those staying overnight in Cherbourg to the Chateau Le Mont Epinguet, and, in the mean time, Andrew B, who will be driving up from Tours will pick up the DZ luggage and take it to Le Mont Epinguet. Susie and I will lead the early ferry crew up to Le Mont Epinguet and we'll arrive at about 14.30.

I'll then go to Auchan, which is only about six miles up the N13, with Andrew B and we will pick up pasta, cheese, butter, jam, coffee, milk, fishy bits, broccoli, soap powder, dishwashing liquid, dishwasher powder, bottled water, salt, pepper, olive oil and maybe wine and cider, although the wine and cider may already be at the chateau if Mark, le patron, thinks that the Auchan stuff is not so good.

Andrew B and I will then return to the Chateau LME. I will leave again at about 18.30 and go down to meet the evening ferry crew. I'm hoping that Mark will do the second luggage run, but if he doesn't, I'll prevail on Stephen and Rachel. The Caen crew should arrive sometime in the afternoon. It may be that TMN will want picking up at Valognes, in which case I'll ask the Ws to zip down there - it's only 12km, but with luggage it will seem an awful lot longer.

The evening ferry crew will arrive about 21.30, by which time the catering team will have prepared a big slap-up pasta/fishy feast. We'll eat, and then I'll escort one gite party to their place and Gordon will lead his gite party down past Brix.

If people are driving to the Chateau then they can let me know where they are driving from and I'll give them a route that will avoid the mire...

 

[srw]

Prevail away!

(You have email saying the same thing)

 

[StuAff]

Bottled water?

RE the pasta/fishy thing. Could the fish be optional please, I'd only end up picking it all out....?

 

[dellzeqq]

ps tea bags. Bring tea bags

 

[dellzeqq]

Bottled water?

RE the pasta/fishy thing. Could the fish be optional please, I'd only end up picking it all out....?

let me know what you do like and I'll sort something out.

and, yes, bottled water. The tap water at the chateau is lovely, but some people like bubbles.

 

[StuAff]

Not much of a fish eater in general, tuna & shellfish I've never liked. If it's a case of 'sauce minus fish' that would be more than OK.

Tea bags and porridge....

 

[StuAff]

Not on pasta

Indeed not!

 

[mmmmartin]

ps tea bags. Bring tea bags

Good point because if you want a decent cup of tea, remember the tea bags sold in France are a pale imitation of those sold here. Johnny Foreigner knows nothing of tea.

 

[StuartG]

TEA BAGS!!!
I may have to cancel.

 

[ianmac62]

The evening ferry crew will arrive about 21.30, by which time the catering team will have prepared a big slap-up pasta/fishy feast. We'll eat, and then I'll escort one gite party to their place and Gordon will lead his gite party down past Brix.

Sounds a splendid plan to me. I have been hoping that Gordon would lead me from Cherbourg ferry port to the gîte!

Does Andrew need to collect our gîte keys at any particular time? Is there a cut-off time?

 

[ianmac62]

Yes Martin, the vast tea plantations of Yorkshire support a thriving export trade all over the empire, to places as far flung and exotic as India and Ceylon.

Tea, biscuits and football - as you've noted elsewhere TMN. Brilliant!

 

[redfalo]

Good point because if you want a decent cup of tea, remember the tea bags sold in France are a pale imitation of those sold here. Johnny Foreigner knows nothing of tea.

I'm not into tea, but some German friends are. And they insist that the ingredients of English tea bags consists of of amazing things, none of them tea.