So, today we went in to Bordeaux by bus AND tram along with about 1000 students – there’s a number of universities here….but first our unlikely meeting:

After setting up here we got to chatting with another brit couple that parked up just after us. Turns out Lorna and Andy (aka Fruit) knows Stephanie when her and a friend were camping/climbing in southeast Spain last year! How astonishing is that!

So to Bordeaux: public transport, ultra smooth and fully integrated. The tram dropped us of at the Central Hotel from which we wandered about taking in the city life. Coffee/chocolate in a café overlooking the river and people watching.

Later, we ate in a most delightful restaurant almost dead center in the city.

As of today (Friday we think) we are going to look out Cap Ferret – a spit of land not far from here and the promose of some free Aires de Camping.

Woke up to rain would you believe. That made our minds up for us as we were undecided whether to push on south and to the better weather prospects. Ann went to the boulangerie while I sorted the van ready to depart. We left Combrit with a plan to head to La Rochelle some 380 kms away. After an abortive effort to get a coffee we jumped onto the E60/E165 eventually pulling off to Arzal and a fully serviced Aire.

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