{"id":30499,"date":"2018-10-22T17:03:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T16:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/?p=30499"},"modified":"2019-04-11T14:10:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T13:10:41","slug":"d-roads-to-stella-plage-north-to-the-opal-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/d-roads-to-stella-plage-north-to-the-opal-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"D Roads to Stella Plage, North to the Opal Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Zagan the motorhome&#8217;s up against familiar pale yellow dunes in the free aire at Stella Plage (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=loc:50.47341,1.57723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">N50.47341, E1.57723<\/a>), just south of Le Touquet on the C\u00f4te d&#8217;Opale (the Opal Coast). When we arrived yesterday afternoon, 18 of the 20 spaces of the aire were taken, and another 6 or 7 vans were parked up on the seafront. This morning (which happens to be a Monday) pretty much everyone&#8217;s gone, so it seems there were a few weekend wanderers here, rather than the whole of France being packed out with <em>camping cars<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181021_151152075.jpg\" alt=\"The free motorhome aire at Stella Plage on the Opal Coast\" class=\"wp-image-30501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181021_151152075.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181021_151152075-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181021_151152075-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181021_151152075-678x381.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The free motorhome aire at Stella Plage on the Opal Coast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Quick aside: France has a thing about posting signs indicating the full details of local laws, so rather than a great big blunt &#8216;NO MOTORHOMES&#8217; sign on the sea front spaces, there&#8217;s a 4 page notice (in teeny weeny writing) giving precise dates when vans can park outside the aire, where they can park, the fact they need to be self-sufficient for cooking, washing, sleeping and toilet facilities and lots of other details we couldn&#8217;t easily translate.&nbsp; After September, the sea front is fair game, but we&#8217;re happy we opted for the aire as the dunes we&#8217;re sandwiched between are protecting us beautifully from the wind. Every time we come here there are land yachts or kite surfers hammering up and down the coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181021_132731772.jpg\" alt=\"Motorhomes along the seafront at Stella Plage\" class=\"wp-image-30502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181021_132731772.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181021_132731772-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181021_132731772-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181021_132731772-678x381.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Motorhomes along the seafront at Stella Plage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now we&#8217;re pooch-less, so don&#8217;t need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/take-pet-abroad\/pet-passport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">allow 24 hours after a vet visit<\/a> before heading to the UK, we could quite easily (with some strong coffee perhaps) motorhome our way home from Paris in a day. Get up early, pile up the A16 toll motorway, grab a train under the channel,&nbsp;free motorway it up to Nottingham. But no, we&#8217;re WAY, WAY too lazy for that. That and the fact a couple of hours driving serves to seize my upper back into a mass of painful muscle, in a way no number of press-ups, kilometres on the rowing machine or miles of running can touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we&#8217;ve stuck to the old way: France&#8217;s departmental (D) roads have brought us here, the equivalent of &#8216;B&#8217; roads back in Blighty. These smaller roads effectively join the dots between French villages and small towns, and since July 1st this year have a blanket 80kph (50mph) speed limit (previously 90kph). The aim of cutting the max speed is simple: to reduce the number of folks killed (roughly 10 a day) or injured (about 190 people a day) on French roads. Will it work? Time will tell, folks still pull off daft overtakes across solid white lines or in the face of fast oncoming traffic when we&#8217;re doing the new limit, so perhaps the lower limit will have the opposite effect? Ju&#8217;s updated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/search\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=subscribed-to-email-21&amp;keywords=tomtom&amp;index=aps&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;linkId=a1bece13324a9c2320c5ec6bfdf8f9d7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">our TomTom SatNav<\/a> with the new limits, although it&#8217;s wrong in some places: sections of road with two lanes on one side and a single lane on the other, with no central divide, are sign-posted at 90kph for the dual-lane side, while the TomTom has them at 80kph.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We cruised out of <a href=\"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/paris-by-motorhome-camping-de-paris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the campsite in Paris<\/a> on Saturday around noon, having had a <a href=\"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/catching-up-with-friends-in-paris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cracking stay seeing friends<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/versailles-by-motorhome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">visiting Versailles<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/la-defense-paris-modern-art-and-architecture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gawping at the art and architecture in La Defense,<\/a>&nbsp;looking around <a href=\"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/the-worlds-most-visited-cemetery-pere-lachaise-paris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Pere Lachaise cemetery<\/a>&nbsp;and doing <a href=\"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/parkrun-paris-bois-de-boulogne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">some Parkrun tourism<\/a>. From what we could see, but for a section of roadworks on the way into the city, the roads around Paris flowed easily. Except at rush hour that is, when they were jam-packed for a couple of hours each morning and evening: think six lanes of endless brake lights with occasional horns blaring, that kind of stuff. Sundays were devoid of cars mind you: if you&#8217;re concerned about the traffic, come to the city on a Sunday and you&#8217;ll have the roads to yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a long section of free motorway and dual carriageway, the road gradually dwindled down to D road as we headed for a wee free aire at a village called Conty (N49.74425, E2.1565), to the south-west of Amiens (<a href=\"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/spiteful-destruction-saved-cathedral-amiens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">which we visited in 2017<\/a>). We&#8217;d been recommended a visit to Arras by a nice British couple at the campsite in Paris, but we both thought we&#8217;d already been. <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1uBrPgdRbmrxy92GWWIazxSPW0uk&amp;usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Checking our map<\/a> we just found we haven&#8217;t (doh), so that&#8217;s one for the &#8216;next time&#8217; list. Conty turned out to be a good spot for a kip, a small town with <em>boucheries, boulangeries<\/em> (Ju can&#8217;t resist the artwork cakes these places flog, opting to try one called a <em>Gland <\/em>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/jeparleamericain.com\/le-gland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an acorn-looking treat<\/a>)<em>,<\/em> a <em>poste,<\/em>&nbsp;and a <em>tabac<\/em> (which had burned down). A kid quaintly greeted us with a passing &#8216;bonjour monsieur-dame&#8217;, and a lady opposite the permanently-shut church popped out her front door and asked whether I was cold (I think, my French is pretty rubbish). The aire was a grassy area away from the main road, a perfect spot for a good night&#8217;s sleep (we made sure we were at the far end from the cockerels spotted strutting in a neighbouring garden!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181020_192139777_HDR.jpg\" alt=\"Le Gland - the acorn cake\" class=\"wp-image-30503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181020_192139777_HDR.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181020_192139777_HDR-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181020_192139777_HDR-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181020_192139777_HDR-678x381.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Le Gland &#8211; the acorn cake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday morning we woke to the distant thud-thud of guns. Shop windows in France have us gawping at the array of shotguns, knives, throwing stars, explosive depth charges and the like you can buy and deploy of a Sunday in vengeful war against the local small mammal population. As we drove in among the fields, groups of blokes with dogs stalked through the low crops, guns at the ready, dogs trotting at their feet. They were pretty easy to spot, being dressed in bright orange jackets with a seemingly pointless camouflage pattern. Exactly what they were hunting, and how come their prey hadn&#8217;t been blasted out of existence through this relentless Sunday massacre, we dunno.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crossing the Somme west of Amiens only took us past a handful of war cemeteries. This area of rolling countryside was the scene of human slaughter a hundred years back, and if we&#8217;d been further east the green signs pointing to the war graves would have stood at junction after junction. We didn&#8217;t stop to pay our respects though, not this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Up here at Stella Plage we&#8217;re on familiar ground, having stayed on the same spot two or three times before. I really like it here. The fact there&#8217;s only a single bar\/cafe (open at the weekends) doesn&#8217;t bother me. I like the peace, the dunes, the huge beach. It has an easy living feel to me, a little like the Capbreton aire down towards Spain on the Atlantic coast which <a href=\"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/auberges-and-rain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">we first stayed in seven years ago<\/a> on our first escape from the big bad World.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181021_154449940.jpg\" alt=\"The sand dunes of the Opal Coast, south of Le Touquet Paris-Plage\" class=\"wp-image-30504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181021_154449940.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181021_154449940-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181021_154449940-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181021_154449940-678x381.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The sand dunes of the Opal Coast, south of Le Touquet Paris-Plage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our ferry home is at 6am tomorrow from Dunkirk (it was cheaper at that time, who needs sleep?), so we&#8217;ll head up to <a href=\"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/final-days-to-oye-plage-before-the-ferry-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the aire at Oye Plage<\/a> this afternoon, a shortish drive from the port. From there we&#8217;ll nip up the motorway and home to Nottingham, popping Zagan back in storage for a few days while we head off on holiday with friends. He won&#8217;t be alone for long, as we&#8217;re then grabbing him again for a jaunt up to Bonnie Scotland for a mate&#8217;s 65th and to check out the North Coast 500. After that, it&#8217;s a December back home and we&#8217;ve just about decided to use the van to head south in January for a longish tour through the winter months, Greece and Turkey maybe, not sure yet, watch this space :-).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181022_094239494_HDR.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181022_094239494_HDR.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181022_094239494_HDR-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181022_094239494_HDR-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181022_094239494_HDR-678x381.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Kudos to Ju! 10km beach run this morning, good work!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cheers, Jay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving our motorhome north through France from Paris to a free aire in the sand dunes of the Opal Coast, on our way to an early morning ferry from Dunkirk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[417,53],"tags":[467,490,429,134,491,466],"class_list":["post-30499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motorhome-blog","category-france-motorhome","tag-camper","tag-departmental-roads","tag-france","tag-motorhome","tag-opal-coast","tag-paris"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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