Day 3 – Riquewihr

Packing up in the morning sunshine is lovely. We are done and dusted within about half an hour and hitched up on the back of the car. We will be sad to leave our first site, it was so quiet and so friendly. The only down side was that they wanted 8€ a day for WiFi. Will we be lucky enough to get it as good as this anywhere else?

Within an hour of being on the toll road the heavens open and visibility is bad. We trundle along, window wipers struggling to keep up with the rain drops and spray off the traffic whizzing by. Speed limits drop here in France when it rains but no one seems to be that bothered.

We arrive at Riquewihr Campsite just as the rain clouds start to disperse. A long queue of vans wait to check in. Passengers start leaving their vehicles to form yet another orderly queue outside the reception office. The lady in the office is very nice and speaks good English and directs us to our allocated pitch, grass and on a slope with a big gap in the hedge at the back, looks like a cut through to the toilet block. In true Debra style I instigate the positioning of the car and caravan so that the gap is blocked, I’m not having my pitch used as a cut through. Just as we get the legs down, the heavens open again, it’s tipping it down again. The Boss takes one for the team and carries on setting up outside whilst I stay in the dry and refill the cupboards. As the rain stops I realise we are under a Linden tree and the smell is divine, possibly accelerated by the rain. We were pitched very near to one of these trees when we worked at Longleat CAMC site. Nature’s natural air freshener.

The rain starts again and I throw lots of things at various intervals into a pan on the electric hob under the canopy. Cooking alfresco whilst it’s raining is a delight under the canopy.

Using the free site WiFi to its full potential as the rain drops start to fall again, I log on and catch up on the last couple of day’s activities.