...you can just seem to hit it right. The sun has just descended on what has been a beautiful evening in St Aubin de Scellon. You may ask, "where?" Well, it is on the way from Paris to Caen in the middle of nowhere, following no roads in particular, and then ending up doing our second night of free camping. This technically is free camping, but on a rather pleasant scale. We have used our Passion France access. Again, you may ask "what?" Well Passion France costs about £30 and gives motorhome users free access to 1800 vineyards, farms etc across the whole of France. So here we are on a cider farm outside of Lisieux. Although it's free, we seem to have purchased 2 bottles of cider and one bottle of Apple juice. The cider has been consumed easily, although we did have a moment! Unlike Perry's cider farm near us, which produces warm still/ flat cider with lumps, this cider is fizzy, lively and has some gusto! So whilst opening the bottle for tea, I unscrewed the wire harness for the cork, believing that there would be ample time to deal with the cork issue. This was not the case. A bit of internal van drama ensued as the cork fizzed out at a rate of knots and pinging from one side to the next, whilst a healthy gush of fizz lampooned itself all over the place. This was not helped by the operator running on panic mode and not really planning on how to resolve the issue. I thought putting my thumb on the end would help....obviously this did not!
Anyway, drama over, the remains of the drink itself was rather lovely. At 3 euros a bottle, I could afford to be a bit more frivolous again! Pascal, the man on site and owner, was a delightful chap though and welcomed us warmly.
For the evening, we then cycled around locally and enjoyed a glorious evening of lowering sun, wide vistas and positive moods. The evening was polished off with more cider, sitting in the sun between the trees in the orchard, watching the kids muck about. Happy days indeed!
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