Had to do some housekeeping this morning, sweep the van and wash a few shirts. Various people were leaving the site, families driving off with cars packed to the gunnels. It was looking very empty.
Once we’d finished our ‘jobs’ we had a choice of turning left at the cycle path and going back into St Jean de Monts for Paul’s oysters or turning right and cycling to Notre Dame de Monts. Paul decided to forgo the oysters and we cycled to Notre Dame de Monts. It was a lovely cycle ride through the pine forest, hardly anyone around so Lottie could run freely. The town/village was quite nice, low level holiday accommodation with not many bars/holiday shops. But as it is distinctly end of season all was very quiet. We managed to find a bar to have a couple of beers, but there weren’t many around. Every notice we saw indicated that all entertainment finished on 31 August.
After buying some bread for lunch we cycled back to the campsite. Lunch was followed by a doze in the sun. Late afternoon Paul suddenly felt unwell, blinding headache and dizziness, so either I’ve shared my sore throat germs or he’s had too much sun. After giving Paul some paracetamol Lottie and I went off to the beach on our own for a walk.
We have had some new ‘residents’ on the campsite, one motorhome is behind us and I saw to my horror that they have a cat on a lead. This meant no more free wandering for Lottie. She spotted it before me and made a dash, with me in hot pursuit, fortunately the chap caught her before she got to the cat. I then had an awkward conversation in English/french with the owners, fortunately they were fine. Lottie has had to be tied up, which is a shame.
We’ve decided to move on to La Rochelle tomorrow, to try an aire that we haven’t used before. We’ve been spoilt on this campsite with a tap on our spacious pitch and also drainage. We will stay on the aire for one night and then move into Il de Re.
We’ve had our tea now and Paul is asleep, let’s hope after a good nights sleep he will feel better.
No photos as the WiFi isn’t good enough to upload them 🙁
2019 Autumn follow the sun 