Our First French Holiday (finally!)

Booked it years ago, couldn't go due to lockdown, then we decided to postpone until 2022. Somebody crashed into our car 5 weeks before departure so guess what ? 2022 was also cancelled!

So with some anxiety 2023 arrived and thankfully our first trip abroad was a complete success!!

We stayed at Bearsted on the way down, a lovely site we stayed at earlier this year for a holiday in Kent.

Day 2 was channel tunnel and Rouen (camping de foret) - delays on the tunnel meant we arrived at the site at 730pm too late to go into Rouen which was a disappointment. Wasn't over impressed with camping de foret - sign said no twin axle so we panicked, but nobody mentioned it. Pitch was small and tricky to get the van into. Nice beer and food though!

Day 3 drive to Jumieges - Guyonnaire for 11 nights! Great site - MASSIVE pitch right in a corner so private and quiet. Fantastic water park, kids loved it, so did we. Lovely food, mainly Dutch visitors but met a few other english families. Staff were friendy and helpful. We had a few days out, to the beach at Les Sables-d'Olonne, which was nice but a bit too windy for our liking. To the local markets which were great. Hoping to get to La Rochelle but at 2hrs seemed a bit too much driving after the long drive down.

A smooth trip back up to camping de foret meant we finally had an afternoon / evening in Rouen which was simply stunning. Smallest car park ever, not ideal for our landrover but it worked out fine! 

This time the we only had a small delay on the tunnel so back at Bearsted for a relaxing evening before driving back to Yorkshire!! 

Fantastic trip and we've booked Guyonnaire again for next year!!!