Birdsong all around and the bread Ali ordered last night has been delivered and left on our chair by the door. As we eat breakfast one of the Dutch dogs chases a red squirrell around the park. We linger at this lovely site longer than we should and finally leave at 11:30.

A few miles on we reach Le Chatre, a beautiful little village with a rose garden around its church. After more miles on long straight roads we stop at a bakery in Bouese and get something for lunch, which turns out to be sausage and egg rolls and a pastry with cheese and potato mixed in.

Where the towns of St Marcel and Le Pont Sheriton merge we pass a company with hundreds of ex-army lorries in rows, still painted in camouflage colours.

We skirt around Poitiers with no trouble but then run into heavy rain before stopping for fuel in Le Blanc.

The remainder of the trip is a mix of rain and dry, dual and single carriageways and some picturesque villages. St Savin sur Gartemps, for one, has a large church whose adjacent abbey dates from the times of Charlemain 747-814.

At 17:30 we reach Domaine de la Chalousiere at Vallet, ironically a site we considered for our first night on the way down. Once again it's a vineyard nd there are beautiful pink rose bushes at the ends of the rows to attract insects away from the vines. We are told where to park, but no invitation for degustation and the only visitor to the van is a friendly young dog. It drizzle on and off and is decidedly cold after our time down south.

After dinner we plan a few options for our final long drive taking us closer to Roscoff.