This is our last day at our gite in Portiranges Plage. It has been a week of kick back and craziness but mostly kick back. We have been overheated in the blazing sun and looking for long underware when the wind kicked in. There is a lot of wind here for sure. Set on a vast sandy plane with no hills to cut he wind you can understand why there are no big trees here. What is here in abundance are any number of tourist accomodation to suit both the old doddering retirees as well as young families. It is a great place to walk, ride a bike, windsurf, rollerblade, wind sail etc. etc.
Did a nature walk through the marsh beside our place. Ten kilometers later we were back with only a couple of egrets, ebis, heron and a few fish to add to our list of wildlife.
By far the greatest wildlife we have wittnessed here are the semi nude women on the beach. Now the young girls are quite pretty but the 400lb women in bikini bottoms reminded us too much of the grey whales we saw last year in the Antarctic. Life is so confusing. I worry about my unsightly rolls and then watch these women greasing up their overabundance.
Yesterday we did a road trip along the coastline east from here. Ate 30 raw oysters, 24 raw mussels and a dozen assorted cooked shelfish between us. That and the bottle of wine made for a very pleasing lunch. The atmosphere was good too. The area near Meze is known for it's shellfish. A quaint little village already beginning to buldge with the start of tourist season.
After a walk along the local nipple beach we decided to head back to our gite for an afternoon sleep.
This has been a week of reading and resting. Only a couple of small road trips to see the area... much of which we had seen on our trip here.
Tomorrow we head north east for a few days then down towards Nice. Will stay in Vence to visit with friends.
Happy Mother's day to all you deserving Mom's out there.