01/05/18 – 02/05/18 – Stella Plage, Cucq, Hauts-de-France
We decided to take the Euro tunnel given that Marley hadn’t been on a ferry before and being the overprotective parents we are, we didn’t want to leave him alone in the van for the 1.5 hour crossing. It was a little more expensive (£120) one-way. However, with half an hour of boarding the train, we were pulling out of the Calais port and on our way to our first overnight stop.
About an hour south of Calais we experienced our first French Aire (Specific overnight stop for Moho’s) in town called Cucq. This place consisted of about 20 spaces between the sand dunes adjacent to the Stella Plage which was a 100m or so over the dunes (GPS 50.4721676,1.5784545,16.71). We arrived around 20:30 giving us just enough time to make our way over to the beach, which as far as we could tell was dog friendly – well at least we didnt encounter anyone telling us we couldn’t go on there with Marley. He loved it, he got time to stretch his little legs and have a good old sniff around…..by the looks of it, he still didn’t like the water though as he did his best to avoid any sign of a puddle. All this and we still managed to catch a beautiful sunset!
The next morning we headed back to the beach for a morning stroll before planning where our next stop would be…This was an exciting first stop, and free!! If this is anything to go by then we are in for a great trip!
in case you are wondering how we managed to find the Aire, we have been using a website called searchforsites.co.uk which is free, you can search on a map – I’ll be reviewing some other overnight camping stop app/websites later, so keep an eye out for that.
