Atlantic Blues

In the last few days we cycled 30km to Rochefort, and we had a restday,  then we cycled 76km to La Palmyre and 117km to Lacanau Ocean.

In Rochefort we arrived nice and early, and it was market day so we did our shopping there. One saleslady made us taste some sausages, but when we wanted to tell her to we want to buy the first one we tasted she couldnt understand us at all, no matter how good our charades were! Finally we got another innocent market goer to translate :) The rest day in Rochefort was fantastic, we slept and slept and ate :) and i finally read the book I have been pickeling along. We stayed at a fantastic camping municipal,  very cheap and clean. One of the other patrons even offered to charge our mobile phones, the French can be really friendly.

In La Palmyre we stayed at a commercial campsite, fortunately we were squeezed in far away from the Bar and not close to any crazies... commercial campsites are full of crazies.  This campsite had a man made lagoon and we imagined that we were in the Bahamas :) The next day we started seeing some of France's awesome beach brakes, beautifull beaches and a blue-blue ocean, finally the Atlantic we know and love - just much warmer! Lots of the breaks are like Derde Steen! But with the surfing came over crowded and over commercialised towns.Yack! And we couldn't find camping... so we kept cycling, and cycling and cycling. We finally realised we may have to wild camp. So we got some provisions and had a swim in a lake (Lac'd Hourtin, France's biggest lake). By 8:30 pm we stopped looking for official camping and pitched in the woods about 100m from a campsite that turned us away. The location seemed nice and hidden away... well it was not such a great spot, lots of drunk French people couldnt find the campsite and got really close to our tent - so we hardly slept :(

Today we just cycled 17km to the closest campsite we could find and now we did washing and are resting. Lots of cycle tourists came in early to this campsite today... I wonder why... We just met a couple that said the shooting at there campsite of last night stopped at 3am... and we thought Bellville is rof, ne!

(Photos to be added soon as we can charge da camera)