Day3 - Monday

Yesterday it struck us just how quite small town rural Belgium and France is on a Sunday. Well today was Monday and it was still pretty quiet. After a continental breakfast we packed the bikes and hit the road, except the sat navs weren't ready to play ball so we went around the houses on a little detour until they settled down and agreed on a route for us to follow, only it wasn't the route we'd loaded (again) as they had both recalculated us onto a peage (toll road) so we went on and dived off at the first exit, paid our 1.60 euros and reloaded the routes. With everything sorted we got back on our original route, wending our way down to the coast, through Deauville and onto the D614 to Arromanches les Bains. Simply because I ride a Deauville I have always wanted to visit the place so we stopped briefly to take some photos before riding on. Now I've been there and seen it I can summarise (and as I said to Steve) Deauville says "money" but it doesn't say "welcome". In that aspect it is very disappointing.

Arrival at Arromanches saw us tired after a long day in the saddle. We'd stopped at a little place at lunchtime for a "burger & chips" snack but the volume of camper vans / motorhomes / RVs on the road had really slowed progress and tried our patience. So when we turned up and found that the garage and wifi we'd insisted upon when booking were not available in the accommodation allocated to us we made it clear that we were far from happy. Additionally there was no radio or TV so we couldn't even check the weather forecast. We must have got the message across because Hans took us back to their first property (family home) and cleared out the garage to make room for the bikes and put us into rooms there. Not perfect but an improvement on the original situation.

After unpacking our stuff and having a shower, refreshed we walked down to The Bistro for a meal. Keeping things short - it took nearly 1.5 hours for them to prepare our meal except it wasn't, it was somebody else's, so we had another wait while they prepared what we had ordered. Others were walking out because the waiting staff were taking too long to take orders or food was taking too long to arrive. We didn't have a desert deciding to turn in for the night instead.

Total mileage Day3 = 186 miles.