That's me done I think

 It's a good thing our travels are nearly over as things are falling apart. Well, that's a little dramatic, but we have lost our electric supply for all intents and purposes. Either a battery has failed or (I suspect) our inverter has a problem. And the weather is crap. So this may be the last blog for our trip for a while.

We woke to find ourselves surrounded by earthmoving trucks! There's a cycleway being built from Vernon to Giverny (at least - we don't know the full route) and the gravel and machinery are being stored on the camping-car park. We had a visit from security late last night but they weren't concerned enough to move us on, so we weren't concerned either.

We visited Monet's house and garden regardless. Over a year they have around 600k visitors, but it was dead quiet while we were there. We walked into a restaurant and got a chorus of 5 bonjours from the staff who were standing around waiting for something to do. Ours was the only motorhome which was a real surprise and we only saw one car in the carpark all the time we were there. 

The garden was very nice, and the house interesting, and there were other things to see in the village as well, such as the Museum of Impressionisms though we didn't go as the next slot was 1 1/2 hours off! (I was very disappointed to find no-one would be pretending to be Boris Johnson or Donald Trump anyway.)

The Monet family grave

Victims of a Lancaster that crashed outside the village

In the garden of the museum of Impressionism

I know it's back-to-front, but the light through the petals made it glow

After lunch we popped back into Vernon to see some sights, though it started to rain heavily so we didn't get to see Chateau Bizy which is unfortunate as it is a 'must-see'.

We did get some lesser sights in first though.

The weather wasn't great for sightseeing

A brief spell of sunshine!

The last of 6 mills built on the mediaeval bridge over the Seine. A dam was built upstream putting all 6 out of business, for which the owners sued.

A fort to protect the end of the bridge. Later it became a storehouse for the wheat milled on the bridge, then a prison, but in 1944 it was hit by bombs aimed for the (modern) bridge and badly damaged. The white stone is reconstruction after the war.

Cruise boats tied up for the season

For some info on the crossings of the Seine at Vernon in 1944, click here. It was quite a scrap.

Through the rain to our next stop where we discovered that we had no power - not even enough to run water!