{"id":28948,"date":"2018-05-02T17:37:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T16:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/?p=28948"},"modified":"2019-04-11T16:25:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T15:25:01","slug":"perched-above-the-seine-at-chateau-gaillard-normandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/perched-above-the-seine-at-chateau-gaillard-normandy\/","title":{"rendered":"Perched Above the Seine at Ch\u00e2teau Gaillard, Normandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zagan the motorhome&#8217;s ramps are made of stern, plasticky stuff. The two of &#8217;em are currently shouldering the full force of our home-on-wheels&#8217; not insignificant girth, as they attempt to level us out on the sloping car park behind the ruined medieval castle that is Ch\u00e2teau Gaillard (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=loc:49.24001,1.40557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">N49.24001, E1.40557<\/a>). They&#8217;re failing, by the way, but we&#8217;re level enough and are settling in for a night&#8217;s kip under a grey, rain-laden sky. Just the other side of the grassy bank in front of us, there are magnificent views out across the castle, the Seine and countryside beyond.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28950\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28950\" class=\"size-large wp-image-28950\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180502_124840965-1024x343.jpg\" alt=\"Motorhome free parking on a wonk, Ch\u00e2teau Gaillard\" width=\"1024\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180502_124840965.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180502_124840965-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180502_124840965-768x257.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Motorhome free parking on a wonk, Ch\u00e2teau Gaillard<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s been a get stuff done day. As much stuff as gets done around here anyway. Zagan&#8217;s auto-changeover valve flicked onto the red band a day or two back, showing us our larger 11Kg LPG bottle was now devoid of gas. That still leaves us with 6Kg, which in theory would last us at least a week. I dunno, it might stretch out to two or three weeks, depending on how much we have the heating on, but that red band always sets us into an immediate &#8216;quick! find some LPG!!!&#8217; mode. We&#8217;ve the latest\u00a0<em>mylpg.eu<\/em> points of interest on our TomTom, so pulled up the nearest supermarket-based fuel station (they tend to be cheaper here in France), and after a good night&#8217;s kip and breakfast looking out over the powerful Seine, we headed off to Super U.<\/p>\n<p>Those of you who&#8217;ve read much of this blog will know the two of us are BIG Lidl fans. We&#8217;ve used &#8217;em everywhere, as they tend to be relatively cheap, sell good quality food, and have a reasonably standard offering, so we can find what we want without hours of hunting. On the minus side, you have to have the reactions of Usain Bolt at the till, as they machine-gun the food at you, and they don&#8217;t sell all the delicacies which make each country unique. Today was an interesting experiment in bias though: is Lidl really cheaper than Super U, or have we been kidding ourselves for years?<\/p>\n<p>After brimming the <em>GPL<\/em> tank off (at \u20ac0.89 a litre), and topping up on <em>gazole<\/em> (diesel, at \u20ac1.39 a litre), Ju did a Super U shop, returning to the van in a huff. The place had been fleeced for one of France&#8217;s eighteen bank holidays in May (I exaggerate, but not much). Everything seemed expensive. The checkout process has changed so they now ask to see inside your bags for life (not a big deal, but we can never understand what the checkout people are asking us and it&#8217;s a tad awkward when we squint back at them). And one of the harried staff had managed to barrel straight into Ju as she dashed around barking orders at her colleagues. As Ju lugged the heavy bags back to Zagan, I sensed great danger from her demeanour, and hid under a blanket as she unpacked.<\/p>\n<p>Heading here, we spotted a Lidl just off the route, and feeling a little disloyal and curious, we nipped in. Buying the bits and bobs Ju couldn&#8217;t get at Super U, Ju noted down some of the prices for a quick comparison. Result: inconclusive. I was amazed. I&#8217;ve always assumed Lidl was cheaper for most things, but it just wasn&#8217;t true, it was a mixed bag, Super U cheaper for some items and Lidl cheaper for others. How can this be? My entire framework for life has been challenged! But on the plus side, you can still get beer for \u20ac1 a litre, just, although Lidl too had been fleeced and the locals had snaffled the lot. Closer inspection of our Super U receipt showed that for some reason we didn&#8217;t get our goodies at the offer prices shown on the shelf &#8211; a cucumber priced at 2 for \u20ac1 or 50c each (not really an offer) went through the till at \u20ac1.69. Maybe we needed their loyalty card, or maybe it was a mistake, but either way, as you may guess Ju is now even crosser at Super U than she was immediately post shop.<\/p>\n<p>The other job on the list was laundry. A bit weird for us UK denizens, but some French supermarkets have industrial washers and dryers in the car park. I kid you not. You can chuck your smalls into the washer, do your shopping, and come back and retrieve it (or more likely, throw it in the dryer and sit about waiting). For us aire-dwellers, with no washing machine on board, these little cabins are a godsend. Today though, although we spotted one en-route, neither of us could be bothered with it. The laundry bag remains a-bulging.<\/p>\n<p>No major incidents to report on the driving front. Nor minor ones. We just drove here, tip-toeing our way through France&#8217;s ever-more-desperate attempts to slow traffic in villages. Chicanes, speed bumps, sad faces in flashing lights, huge pot plants placed in the road, pits filled with spikes and crocodiles, everything screaming SLOW DOWN DAMMIT!!!!. In a few weeks (1 July) they&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.connexionfrance.com\/French-news\/Government-unveils-18-new-road-safety-measures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">even dropping the speed limit<\/a> on every 90Kph road down to 80Kph. As far as I can tell, only about 3% of the population sticks to the 90Kph limit anyway, so the reduction should be something interesting to observe.<\/p>\n<p>Here at the Ch\u00e2teau, we spent a wee while peering out at the wonderful landscape, from aside the castle ruins. Signs educated us, in a temporary sense as we forget the lengthy facts almost immediately, at least I do. A few facts have lodged themselves though: the fortification here was knocked up by Richard the Lionheart to defend Normandy from the pesky French who kept asking for it back, what with it being in France and all? After his death the French laid siege to the place. As essentials (roast beef? sorry, sorry) started to run out, the English defenders decided the local population who were hiding in there with them were scoffing too much, so chucked them out to try and survive a winter in no-man&#8217;s land between the two forces. A gruesome painting of cannibalism is one of the more unwelcome images lodged in my memory.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-28956\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180502_132320732_HDR-1024x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180502_132320732_HDR.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180502_132320732_HDR-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180502_132320732_HDR-768x293.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-28953\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180502_134707312_HDR-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180502_134707312_HDR.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180502_134707312_HDR-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180502_134707312_HDR-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180502_134707312_HDR-678x381.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-28954\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180502_134224492_HDR-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180502_134224492_HDR.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180502_134224492_HDR-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180502_134224492_HDR-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180502_134224492_HDR-678x381.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-28955\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180502_134145209_HDR-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180502_134145209_HDR.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180502_134145209_HDR-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180502_134145209_HDR-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180502_134145209_HDR-678x381.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What else? Well, it being hilly around here (15% incline down to the town below), I&#8217;ve had a chance to leg it up some hills. &#8216;You lucky, lucky, swine&#8217; I hear you say. Oh yes. It was delightful. If any of the Americans from the tour descending the hill as I slogged my way up are reading this though: thanks for the encouragement folks, it was needed!<\/p>\n<p>Right, the rain&#8217;s well and truly set in now, which we don&#8217;t mind when free camping as <em>youfs <\/em>tend to stay in and overheat their Playstation when the weather&#8217;s rubbish, rather than impressing upon us their choice of banging tunes all night.\u00a0 Some pork&#8217;s defrosted in the fridge, and the weather forecast is good. Time to go, tomorrow we head south.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers, Jay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zagan the motorhome&#8217;s ramps are made of stern, plasticky stuff. 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