Verneuil-sur-Avre

Last night, I suddenly realised that I'd got the days wrong for arriving at our next site, near Dieppe. This means we have an extra day, so we took a short drive northwards to an Aire by the town hall (Marie). We managed a brief walk around the town, which has some lovely and ancient buildings. Apparently, it was destroyed by the British in 14 hundred and something but rebuilt. Cotton was big here around the 1800s.
The town centre is currently being reinvented big style. It looks a bit like the square in Kirkby Lonsdale when they re-jigged the whole place in order to film Jamaica Inn.
The sun was out to start with, but we came back to the van when it got chilly and rainy. In no time it was sunny again so I went out for another walk. Only about under 4 miles today. I returned just before the rain did. We spent the rest of the time learning Spanish and reading while outside it poured down.
We were the first to arrive, but there are about 5 vans here now.Read more