Jess had written this again and more pics on her blog at http://theadventuresofmoon.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/bonjour.html
Seeings as though dad was the driver today it was quite lucky that he had a very good nights sleep. Mum slept a bit on and off and I was up what felt like aaaaaaallll night! Must have had a couple of hours - mum thought she was going to wake up to a murder, as a man across from us was snoring all night and I was ready to stab him. It was a fairly smooth ride but at one point durning the night you could really feel that the swell was huge!
Massively daunting driving straight off the ferry into city traffic on the wrong side of the road. Had no idea where we were going so pulled over as soon as we could into a service station and had a cup of tea and our breakfast. Mum and dad tried to sort our where to go before we plunged back into the traffic. Got lost a few hundred times - very difficult to navigate in the city. Was all a lot harder than we thought it would be - roads have like three different numbers and everything in French too was making it hugely difficult. Le Havre was very industrial and nothing special, but we did come to a very steep bridge (the bridge we were aiming for, we knew if we got across that we were at least headed in the right direction!) which Edward had told me about - apparently it's a very fancy engineering-ey wise suspension bridge. So took lots of pictures of it for him (yawn).
Ended up going through a few tolls unintentionally - very confusing as we are going off a road map book, mums phone GPS and this auto route program loaded onto mum and dad's computer. The auto route thing is probably the best but as it's not connected to Internet it doesn't show you where you are (just the directions) your screwed if you get lost! Which we did. About twenty times. Aside from all this palaver, the scenery now we were out into the countryside was beautiful, so lovely and green. Chateaus here and there and we were impressed to see quite a few wind turbines too. No where near enough of them in aus. The weather was nice the whole time too, sun come out a few times and was nice and warm.
Stopped in a tres cute petit town called Pontorson. Got some euros out from the bank there and had a little walk around. There was some really awesome derelict old buildings - like what you'd see in a movie (but more cool than creepy). There was also this really funny looking water tower attached to this old house that had all these beautiful concrete scrolls and vines going up the sides of it. Looked like a cross between a witches tower and a building you would find in Rivendell. Headed off towards Le Mont Saint Michael which we had been aiming for all day. Somewhere I have always wanted to go. Even when we were miles away from it you could see it rising up in the distance, a shimmering castle in the sunlight across the water. It was like something from a fairy tale (and in saying that the Disney movie Tangled based the castle in that on it).
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