Euro2001 – Day 11 – CIRCUIT DE CROIX EN TERNOIS to LE HAVRE

Thursday 9th August 2001

“The last Hotel”

After the excitement of the track, it’s time to say our goodbyes, as the tour splits up. The Calais group go straight off for a 90 min run to the Calais ferry terminal to catch a 9:15pm ferry whilst the Le Havre group head west towards their Hotel at Le Havre to await their ferry the following morning.

BEWARE there are 2 Kyriad hotels in Le Havre the other one is 8 Km out of town so ignore any signs that you might see.

From Croix we travel west on the N39 to just below Hesdin where we turn south West on the D928 towards Abbeville. North of Abbeville we take the Autoroute A28/E402, which takes us just South of St Saens where we change to the A29/E44 into Le Havre. Here we turn west on to the A131/E5, which quickly becomes the N202/E5 and then the N15/E5 until we finally have a dock on our left. We are now in Quai Colbert and the Hotel is described as close to McDonalds and the Station.

Having not done a recce of this sector we are not sure what the parking/eating arrangements are but the Hotel appears to have private parking and a restaurant.

That’s the end of our journey; all we have to do in the morning is find our way to the ferry terminal, which appears to be very close by. The ferry leaves at 08:30, so we have to check-in at 07:30. Rise and shine…

Directions: Microsoft AutoRoute.

Summary: 133.8 miles (2 hours, 20 minutes)