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We should be there soon. Probably heading for the municipal site at the top of the island.Try isle D'Oleron. Great for cycling....and the seafood........mmmmmmmmmmm drooling!
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We should be there soon. Probably heading for the municipal site at the top of the island.Try isle D'Oleron. Great for cycling....and the seafood........mmmmmmmmmmm drooling!
We visited Oleron last year, but we prefer the Ile de Re. The sites didn't seem as nice but were no less expensive. The cycling is brilliant on both islands but the site we are on is, in our opinion as close to perfection as you can get!Try isle D'Oleron. Great for cycling....and the seafood........mmmmmmmmmmm drooling!
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Thanks for this @magicsurfbus I will be paying my respects at the cemetery whilst there.The walled cemetery in the centre of Bois Plage en Re (opposite the market hall and Tourist Info office) contains the small but intriguing Commonwealth War Graves plot that I mentioned in Broken Link Removed. To get inside for a look you have to press the button by the gate. Worth a few minutes of your time.
@GAVLAD - Don't know about the site, but Ars-en-Re is fine for exploring the top half of the island, especially if you've got bikes. Plenty of variety round there. The lighthouse is best at low tide and I'm pretty certain the neighbouring sandy beach is where they filmed The Longest Day - probably to get away from the rain in Normandy. Maybe a bit of a hike to the likes of La Flotte and Saint Marie, but if you visit Saint Martin you'll get an idea of what they have to offer. The beachfront at la Couarde is a bit more commercial than most but is still quite restrained by English standards. If you don't like the site there's an aire at St Clement des Baleines.
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Good luckjust need to wear him down now. I've started high - saying I want a linen jacket at €200, tomorrow moving down to a €100 pashmina jumper, my plan is that having refused these two he will happily settle for €32 beautiful plummy silk scarf - and anyway 'I'm wurf it!!!'
We're slumming it on the Ile d'Oleron at the moment. There is a wet bit beside us full of frogs - the small green sort. I recorded this a few minutes ago.
https://clyp.it/hxbqb2i2#
I suspect they will be at it all night.
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Hi Neil, we are on Les Amis de la Plage, at Le Bois Plage en Re. It's 1645, page 159 in the Acsi book.Loving the updates, bit envious. I hope to follow in your footsteps eat huitres, drink chilled wine, snaffle strawberry tarts, view a relic and round it off with a fashionable Kitty body board and artisan signed scarf purchase. Actually I might skip the scarf, Jacqui does not read this so safe
But have one question, which site is it that you are staying on, have read the previous journey with @Mousy but cannot work out the site? Always interested in a perfect site
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Clifton said the same thing John, but I made it my business to look for the tell tale signs, and the majestic (albeit not necessarily fast) cyclists are 'sans electrique' but definitely 'avec chic' !If the French cyclists around where we are at the moment are any hint, the fast moving ones with dog and baguette - have a bit of electric help.
of Mortagne sur Gironne tomorrow.
Dear 'cliffhanger' that goes for ukuleles too! (Only joking, I appreciate both)Dear cliffandger,
We think it is very unfair of you to put those pictures on here when we are suffering severe withdrawals, having just returned from a six week trip to Normandy/Brittany on Saturday.
Please refrain from any further pictures of Boulanger/Patisserie.
Thankyou
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I thought you stayed there the day you left Twin Lakes? An Aires overlooking the marina. You sent me a photo but I can't find it!Can't be me Ger, I've never been there
No, we were here, which is at the north end of the island. The beach is about 300m away. Clean and basic (€13.50 a night) with a friendly bar and some keen pétanque players who meet every evening. It's in the ACSI book.John @DBK - were you staying at Les Saumonards? That's the site we're thinking of moving on to unless you know of a better one with access to the beach?
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