Last night at Lottie’s feeding time I realised I hadn’t taken her food out of the freezer. Not to worry, I thought, she can have the M&S dog food I bought just before we left. It was grain free chicken and she loved it. A great success I thought. She wolfed it down.
Today, not such a great success, she has definitely had a gippy tummy. Let’s just say her poo has not been solid and it involved me having to buy some baby wipes when we were out this morning. ☹️ She’s been very good at asking to ‘go’, but whilst I had gone to the shower apparently she asked to go out, Paul let her out and before he had got his trainers on he could hear the English couple 2 pitches up shouting at her as she squat in front of them 😳 Paul said he rushed up, apologised and picked up her poo (except he said he couldn’t find anything so just pretended he had) 🙄. I was just glad I wasn’t there. She’s had her normal food tonight so let’s hope it settles down.
This morning Paul was determined to get the owners of the english Carthago pitched behind us to speak, so far they had stayed in their van with the blinds up. About 9.30am I heard him say in a loud voice ‘Morning Carthago neighbours’. 🤣 he’d spotted the chap get out of his van so he went for it. I heard them chatting for a while, then he came in and said ‘you won’t like them, not your sort of people at all, the wife was moaning about everything’. He’s right.
We cycled into La Bois Plage and spent a while wandering the market, I bought some bits and pieces for tea, bought Paul his favourite ‘little white fish’ (anchovies). We wanted to stop at the cafe that we’d been at 2 years ago when I heard the news that I was going to be a grandparent but unfortunately it was too busy so we had to find another one. Next to us in the cafe were an English couple who were also in a motorhome but at a different campsite. He was (or used to work as) a dentist and although they lived in Wimborne now, they had spent some time in North Devon and knew Jonathan Munns, who used to be my dentist many years ago. Small world.
We cycled back to the campsite and had a late lunch. Late afternoon we cycled to Ste Marie which was only supposed to be 1km down the cycle path 🚲. However it took us about 2miles to find some sort of centre. We visited the Pharmacy as Paul has had an irritating cough. Usually he sends me in to buy anything but I told him he had to do this himself as they would ask questions. He came out about 10 mins later clutching a bag of cough syrup and a throat spray.
We then spent another mile or so trying to find the beach, which we did eventually. It was a very windswept, natural beach with lovely golden sand and many pebbles. We walked for a while, taking in the fresh sea air.
Our winding return on the cycle path took us past a collection of boules pitches, about 6- 8, with many people playing. Maybe there was a competition on.
By now the weather was windy and grey. We had decided to move on tomorrow and this reinforced that we’d made the right decision. We were going to head for Sam Sebastian but the weather wasn’t looking too good down there so we’re heading South in France, probably towards Collioure/Argelès-sur-Mer.
We thought we’d better move as if we stayed we would end up putting on a lot of weight! The food around here is delicious, the bread, the cheese, the pate etc etc
2019 Autumn follow the sun 