Friday August 15, 2014

Today we decided to follow the Velodyssey route all day.  Of course that always adds the kilometres as it takes you the scenic route.  It was a lovely route.  We started of finding our way through Bretignolles and followed the atlantic coast line through up-market seaside resorts and some not so up market areas.

We went through a forested area and a marshland area.  The route was very varied and for the most part flat.

The Town\’s varied from big modern to old traditional.

We had a traffic jam today – horses.  We were on one of the forest routes and came to an intersection where there were 48 horses plodding along.  We had to wait almost 5 minutes until they had all passed us.

We arrived in Tranche sur Mer at about 4:30 and went to the municipal campsite.  On the notice board it stated that the site was full.  Today is a stat holiday and a busy week-end.  The next municipal site was another 12 kms away.  We asked the warden if she had space for a small tent.  She looked in the computer and then offered us a small site it has 15 children camping there she told us, but they are leaving tomorrow.  We said yes and asked to stay two nights.  We pay when we leave.  It was a bit complicated to find the site, as our site was down a small track or up a set of stairs.  We took the track, it is a sandy site.

It is a nice quite site and the children are teenagers and surprisingly very quiet and polite.  At 10:30 tonight we were woken up by fireworks.  We could see them from the tent, very pretty.