First night in France in Etaples

We disembarked the ferry thinking of getting down to Le Treport and soon discovered our progress was too slow and headed for Etaples.
We gave up trying to find the camp site in the Camping and Caravan sit and stopped at a camp site near the sand dunes and the sea. After a brief conversation with the owner in a mixture of French and English we discovered he had space it was only €10.50 per night including power and we could park anywhere. We couldn’t decide a choice of spot and drove around aimlessly until finding a spot near the playground and the wash facitlites. We put up the awning and sat down to pre-dinner drinks and olives. The kids explored the camp site on their bikes for a while and we threw together dinner of chipolatas from the butcher’s at Lidles, little potatoes and a fresh green salad washed down with a nice bottle of red Burgundy.

After some difficult connecting I did some work and piled into bed at 1 in the morning.
Rachel