In France, get off the Autoroute!
On our motoring trip around France, we covered a lot of ground on the "autoroutes". They are excellent if your ambition is to get somewhere, because the "local" roads are indeed slow going, but you will see little apart from cities if you stay on the autoroutes. So, when we could, we detoured onto the "N" roads and smaller "D" roads. That leads to great little places like this.The photo is from the window of our B&B in the little village of Rougemontiers, not far from Rouen. Down the way, the building on the left is "Le Flash" restaurant, where we had joined half the local community for dinner the previous evening. For an extremely low price, we'd had a complimentary glass of Calvados (the local fire water), a good country style meal, and a 1 litre flagon of wine. It's a few years ago, so the restaurant may have changed. But you can be sure that the smaller villages which don't make the...
