After breakfast today, we went out to survey the snow. Always the weather skeptic, I didn't really believe them when they said 2m high drifts and buried cars. Guess what. The drifts were actually as high as I am tall. Incroyable!
We've had a lovely, calm day wandering around Creully. We discovered that Montgomery set up the British headquarters for D-Day here, and that the BBC broadcast from the square tour in the chateau. We walked a lot, and gawped at snow drifts a lot.
The food here at Hostellerie Saint Martin is wonderful. Lunch today was homemade paté, followed by duck confit in honey sauce with gratin dauphinoise potatoes (and really good coffee). Again this afternoon, we took our aperatif at one of the local bars. I think I liked yesterday's better - it came with a resident cat who was sleeping on a chair at the table next to us.
There is now 1 road open which we think we can use to get to Caen, then carry on across France. We must make it to the Chunnel tomorrow in order to cross back over to England. The memorial at Vimy is our 'must see' for tomorrow before heading back up to Calais. At regular speeds and good road conditions, we are 3 1/2 hours away. Currently, if we can make it at all, we're hoping to do the trip in 5 hours, though we're ready for it to take 8. The A1 national highway is still jammed with trucks, as it has been for the past 2 days. Let's hope it has cleared by the time we need to drive a section of it.
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