Thursday August 21, 2014

A cool morning again, but it very quickly warmed up.  Today we decided to attempt omelletes for breakfast, we are becoming gourmet chefs on a camping stove (or not).  Ralf’s came out o.k. – mine looked more like an explosion, but it tasted good.

The first part of the route took us back through the Town and we got misplaced trying to find the right path.  The route was a little confusing and we came across a fellow touring cyclist that had the Velodyssey guide book.  He got misplaced too!  We all found the right path and headed towards La Porge.

The route was again on a paved forest path.

A couple of days ago we passed a large Naturiste camping site (the largest in Europe).  We always get confused with naturiste and naturalist!  Today we definitely saw a nudist, he was wandering through the woods towards a beach area – very cute buns he had.

As we arrived in La Porge we were pleasantly surprised to find a large surfing and beach area. There were several restaurants ready to feed the hungry beach goer.  It was quite expensive, but with the captive audience from the beach it was a nice place to stop and eat or have a coffee.

Take your rubbish home with you.

We stopped in Lege Cap Ferret for lunch, it was getting quite hot.  While we were eating lunch Ralf’s garmin had a heat stroke.  It stopped displaying anything – Ralf thought that it was still working, but was beginning to get concerned when it was still not working as we cycled along in the shade.  We carried on the cycle route which had now changed from a forest path to a wide paved path which ran adjacent to the D3.  Every Town we went through the path directed us into the Town or we could carry on along the cycle route.

We had decided to stop in Audenge at the Tourisme Office to find out about camp sites south of Audenge.  Unfortunately we were there too early – they were closed from 12:30 to 2:30, it was 2:00.  We carried on to Biganos, where we got information about the campsite in Le Tiech, which is where I wanted to stay tonight.  The lady in the Tourisme office called the campsite to make sure they had pitches available, they did have.  We cycled on and are in another private site, with a swimming pool, restaurant and clean facilities (E17.70).  Our site doesn’t have power so I plugged the computer in at the office and updated the blog, while Ralf went to get dinner.