Day 52 Thursday 25 June 2026
Today we drove north along the coast of the Manche department of Normandy (towards Cherbourg Octeville) to escape the overbearing heat. The french Meteo promised at least 10° less. 30° at the beach is certainly more comfortable than 40°+ inland.
We stopped a few times to look out at the view of the coast, including one of Mont Saint Michel at Grouin du Sud, just out of Avranche.
We hugged the coast, going through small villages including St.Jean le Thomas, where over the centuries there has been many fortifications built, including ones by the famous architect, Vauban.
We had hoped to get out to see the lighthouse at Granville, but the traffic was too chaotic and it got too confusing when we got motorhome forbidden signs on roads that our Garmin wanted us to travel on.
Further on we stopped to look at a WWII memorial dedicated to the efforts of the french resistance.
In one of the villages we stopped to fill up with water €2/10mins. Its been tricky to find water.
We researched a few places that we could park up overnight close to the beach and ended up at Sciotot Beach at Le Rozel. We were also here in 2015 but in another parking spot!
We enjoyed several dips in the lovely refreshing clear water keeping us cool as the temperature still got up to over 30°.
Finally the cool change came through around 9pm, bringing a relief to many, and promising cooler temperatures for a week or so. Phew.
It’s such a nice spot here that we are going to stay another day…
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