What a hero – Dave managed to drive ALL the way to the selected campsite just outside Lille and we fell into bed about 1:45am 😴
During my phone call to the campsite the previous evening, the guy said he would open the gates at 7am so we set the alarm for 6:55am (!!!) but as there was no sight of him (& we were shattered) we dropped off to sleep again until 10am.
The gates still weren’t open and rather worryingly Dave spotted a “Fermé” sign (CLOSED for those of you who daydreamed during French at school !!!)
So I rang the campsite again – to find out that the guy HAD opened the campsite at 7am – but he was in Dunkirk 😐
Don’t ASK me how or why but the number that I rang from the website in Lille connected me to a website in Dunkirk 🤷♀️
ANYWAY, suddenly the gates opened & a French guy emerged – who spoke English – and he informed me that it was an “exceptional” year in that the site was only open to Frenchies this year…
And he informed us that it WAS a naturist site so we probably dodged a bullet there anyway !!! 😳😅
