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alexist at 08:11am on 26/03/2005
alexist at 08:11am on 26/03/2005Our hotel is in an Orange wi-fi hotspot, so of course I had to try it!
Trip down was OK. It took us only 40 minutes to get to the Dartford crossing--driving in London at 6am is great! Too bad we were delayed 40min at Dover. The ferry crossing was fine though, and we got priority loading and unloading, so we were right off.
Driving in France was fine, especially once the fog burnt off, and the roads confirmed previous impressions--the French are good at public works. We went on a secondary route rather than the autoroute for about half of it, so we got a nice drive through fields and little villages. I do like the sense of space you get in France. England always feels much more crowded. This may sound funny, as I come from Long Island, which is completely built up and just outside the largest city in the USA--but it's still the States, it's still a big country, and there's still huge tracts of pretty empty feeling land once you get out of the suburbs. In England, you never feel like you're more than 5 minutes from people.
Anyway, we stopped off in a little town, we had some lunch, and I discovered that French pharmacies are not like American and British ones--they don't sell a whole range of toiletries. They did have toothbrushes though.
Made it to Rouen, had a nap, and had a rather nice dinner, at which my (minimal) spoken French failed me, but my knowledge of food trumped Neil's: I knew that "moelleux au chocolat" meant "gooey chocolate cake" and he didn't ;)
Trip down was OK. It took us only 40 minutes to get to the Dartford crossing--driving in London at 6am is great! Too bad we were delayed 40min at Dover. The ferry crossing was fine though, and we got priority loading and unloading, so we were right off.
Driving in France was fine, especially once the fog burnt off, and the roads confirmed previous impressions--the French are good at public works. We went on a secondary route rather than the autoroute for about half of it, so we got a nice drive through fields and little villages. I do like the sense of space you get in France. England always feels much more crowded. This may sound funny, as I come from Long Island, which is completely built up and just outside the largest city in the USA--but it's still the States, it's still a big country, and there's still huge tracts of pretty empty feeling land once you get out of the suburbs. In England, you never feel like you're more than 5 minutes from people.
Anyway, we stopped off in a little town, we had some lunch, and I discovered that French pharmacies are not like American and British ones--they don't sell a whole range of toiletries. They did have toothbrushes though.
Made it to Rouen, had a nap, and had a rather nice dinner, at which my (minimal) spoken French failed me, but my knowledge of food trumped Neil's: I knew that "moelleux au chocolat" meant "gooey chocolate cake" and he didn't ;)
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