Coffee on La Dune

In the last couple of days we cycled 74km to Dune Pyla (Arcachon), 52km to Parentis en Born and today 82km to Lèon.

Dune Pyla is the highest Dune in Europe, but if you've been to the Namib this may not be at first obvious. We noticed there was 100's of people on the Dune, so I asked why so... and was told: it's the highest in Europe... I must have looked like just another ignorant tourist :) Since we've been up Big Daddy at Sossus Vlei we decided we must conquer this Dune as well - so we woke up at 6am to go up the Dune, we would make coffee on top of the dune as our reward - armed with our stove and all we set out on the climb. Buy halfway up the Dune (110m high) something that looks like a cross between a 'Tor' and a Bee stings Colette - and she is allergic to bees - so I ran down to get her pills. She seemed fine so we started up the dune again... really ready for that coffee. The climb up was actually not that hard, since they placed a ladder on the dune :) At the top Colette, who packed the stove, assembles it carefully... and I get the coffee and pots ready; oops which pot? I forgot the damn pot :( Colette wasn't very impressed but (un)fortunately she broke one of our whiskey tasting glasses carried all the way from Edinburgh the previous day - so she quickly forgave me...

Colette's arm was quite sore and stinging lots plus she took 2 antihistamines so by lunch time she had fallen asleep on her bicycle so we found a campsite next to a beautifull lake and put her in bed :)

Today we had a nice cycle but tonight we are a little sad as tomorrow we are heading towards the border, our time in France is running out - but atleast we have sangria amd tappas to look forward to.