Breakfast at le Brevedent
Olive relaxes in her sunshade
The Chateau from other side of lake - our van bottom right
Remains of BBQ - bottles of Normandy Cider, a local speciality
View from our pitch A few pics from our holidays in Normandy and Brittany. We really loved the first site we stayed at - le Brevedent. We had a pitch by the fishing lake amd enjoyed a good few days of just sitting and watching Olive fall asleep in the heat.
The campsite was part of the Castel group which are in the grounds of Chateaux and usually run by families who are just wanting to keep hold of their beautiful family estates and need cash to fix the roof, tennis courts etc ! We stayed at 2 others and were very impressed.
I really enjoyed the whole holiday - camping and France go so well together. The countryside was beautiful, fields of rolling corn everywhere - when you're driving along the deserted roads you can pretty much wind down the window and touch it. The campsites were all charming and well run - you order your croissants the day before then pick them up fresh the next morning. The French seem to have a healthy disregard for rules - kids running around enjoying themselves, four-year-olds seemingly swimming with parents nowhere to be seen !
I'm sorry no pictures of Olive and the Bayeaux tapestry which was amazing. Olive, who loves looking at picture books, was at the perfect height in the Baby Bjorn and stared intently as we walked along this 70 metre long comic strip. She fell asleep exhausted by the end. I think it was all too much for her, trying to spot Meg and Mog !
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