Le Grand Hotel de la Plage - Royan
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All aboard for Bordeaux
Another grey day but a little warmer at 17c. Today we have a pre booked excursion for the whole group with Maryse of Bordeaux Excursions. There is a small hitch as we have a misunderstanding about meeting times but at 9am we meet and set off in her immaculate minibus. As we have all toured vineyards before we have opted to go around Bordeaux city today.
It is about 2 hours to drive the 100 km to Bordeaux and there is ...
I do like to be beside the seaside!
... by the time we arrive it has stopped raining so we walk down the short street from the church square where the shuttle stops towards the sea. The market is still opening up and we stop to talk very haltingly in school French to a beekeeper who is bringing honeycombs and equipment to the tourist information office to show how they extract the honey. He gives us some honeycomb to try,very sweet and VERY sticky!
The market is a local market selling meat,fish, fruit and veg ...
Trip to Blaye
We made our way down the country lanes through little french villages to Blaye it is on the estuary where the Dordogne and the Garonne rivers merge to make the Gironde. There is a large fortress there that was used to protect the city of Bordeaux in the second half of the 16th century. We were able to walk ...
Lovely site
After being dissappointed with the campsite we planned on staying we made our way a bit further down the coast to this small village. The site is right in the middle of farmland really quiet and not many pitches taken so we have the site nearly to ourselves. The plan is to stay here for a few days and enjoy the peace and the warm sunshine, yes it eventually came out today with the temp about 28 degrees in the sun with the forecast to get hotter. ...
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