We did the final pack up in the morning and after a quick coffee and the boat check all good and getting back our deposit 😅 we drove into Corbigny town.

It was market day so it was busy.

We found the main tabac with coffees but they had no food so we had to buy croissants across the road first. The display in the bakeries is always amazing.

I asked for a pain au chocolate but they had none – but they did have a pastry with chocolate that Glenn and I chose. It also had custard and it was so solid we had half of one and left the other one. It was yummy though!! After our coffee in the tabac we went to check out the markets. There was cheese, salami, honey, meats and lots of veg.

It was then time to go. We said our farewells- until next year we hope- and went on our way. We are going north towards Dieppe, Angela and Oli are going west to Germany stopping in Metz overnight.

We stayed off the toll roads to see the countryside. We were on a long straight road and said it must be a Roman road.

We soon saw a sign for a site of a Roman-Gallo town. We went to check it out.

It was a whole Roman-Gallo town of Compierre of up to 2000 people from 1st century BC to the 4th century AD.

So far only a few buildings are exposed.

The forum with shops around and a hexagonal temple are the first buildings to see.

Then there was a butchers shop with a large stone cut basin and grooves in the pavement beside it.

The rest has to be properly excavated. There are notices saying it’s not allowed until it is approved by the authorities

This is the plan of the whole town.

It’s strange to think that this empty forest was once a busy town.

We then jumped back in the van and continued driving north. We first went through fields – and then past a massive power station. I checked later that it was the nuclear plant in Dampierre – not near any big towns.

The country was very flat with little features – just massive fields. On some fields there were huge wind turbines. There were a lot of tractors harvesting their produce – a lot of potatoes and onions.

We saw a lot of onions and potatoes on the side of the road – particularly at corners – since the tractor bogies are so overloaded.

We found a good free aire in the small village of Cormainville in the middle of the fields. We went for a walk around town. The main feature was the huge church – probably very old. There was a war memorial beside it.

The busy streets:

The signpost had a very amusing town name on it – and maybe that was an inhabitant below?

The only bar was closed – so we went back to the van for a quiet night. We needed it anyway.