East and North from Trégastel (2)

We drove on through the pouring rain and eventually came to Etretat where we checked in at the New Windsor Hotel. We were lucky enough to get the last room, the manager told us. I found that hard to believe in view of the extraordinary western saloon bar-type door connecting the bedroom to the wash room. None of the electric plugs were working and neither was the wifi. When we pointed this out to the manager he pronounced himself as desolated as we were. When Anne asked him - I would never have had the courage - whether in the circumstances, he might not see his way clear to offering us a free tartiflette normande by way of compensation, he again declared himself desolated. I asked him if he got any visitors from Paris. Too many, he replied darkly.
It made one wonder what the Old Windsor Hotel could possibly have been like.

The New Windsor Hotel, Etretat

Tartiflette normande

Bathroom and guest