InvictaMoto's Devall Boys!

Both of us booked the Eurotunnel tickets yesterday. Out at 0920 on a Friday and back at 1650 on the Monday. Next job was to buy track tickets. That was done today.  So we're set.

The hotel is booked and I have been looking to see if any nearer to Le Mans have come online. But so far nothing has popped up. Well, none at a reasonable price. There are loads on booking.com at over £500 a night. We have a slight pause just in case Arsenal reach the Cup Final. 

With the hotel booked on the usual free cancellation/no prepayment basis we are in a dead zone until we decide that we are definitely going. Today I had an email from the ticket office to say that tickets for the event are on sale.  Eagerly, I clicked to see what the prices are for 2019. General admission to the track are €80 for the weekend and Grandstands with a booked seat are from €135. There are also a range of other stands for "fans". There is always a Valentino Rossi fan stand. I guess to sit there you need to make sure you have at least a yellow 46 cap and maybe say "for sure" in most sentences in English. But as for price. Who knows? On the website all grandstands come up as "SOLD OUT". Already? https://www.gpfrancemoto.com/en/grandstand/3-day-ticket

Monday Homeward bound. The plan was to visit a WW2 site and the museum, at the Falaise Gap. Instead several TomTom glitches ruined that plan. Instead we found Camembert. Where the cheese comes from. We ate chesse. Bought cheese. Then left. The rest of the journey went smoothly. Photos from the trip.

Saturday After breakfast we took the non-toll route to Le Mans. Woody leading as my TomTom was misbehaving. ( http://invictamoto.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/tomtom.html ) At the hotel we of course donned waterproofs. The BMW hand guards are excellent water holders... Water collectors At the track they affix a sticker to the headlamp and give you the other half. On leaving both have to match. They also want to see the bike's log book. French ones are small, our are four pages of A4 and paper. As it is peezing down there is no way I am getting mine out of the topbox! We arrived in time for the Moto2 free session and all three classes qualifying. All the commentary in French. A summary in English at the end is spoken by a guy that learned English in a vacuum. It drizzled all day. Rained hard at times. Almost trench foot. Saturday evening and as a result of my schoolboy French in booking a table, we ate at the nearby Campanile. After eating we watched the Champion...