Today, we decided that we needed to buy some more inner tubes for Will's bike(considering its history this holiday!!) This meant cycling down to Soulac and paying the local bike shop a visit. After this, we decided to cycle around the town, looking at the shops and sussing out restaurants to eat out at that night. Then, we went to the kiosk by the beach to buy some things for lunch. After lunch, we went to the beach to surf, play patball(me and dad got to 97) and...

Today was our first beach day. We had a very relaxed morning with a breakfast of cereals and croissants with Nutella. We didn't actually get off to the beach until 12 because my bike tyre was punctured (again!). At the beach it wasn't too crowded to begin with but as the day went on the weather improved and more people arrived. A large JCB was hurtling backwards and forwards building another ramp down to the beach so we had to be quite careful when walking to the...

Said our farewells to Pyrenees Emotions and the other English families who'd been there. This must be a Cool Camping effect. Before we set off properly we went via the site where the boys abseiled yesterday. All a bit scary and we were glad we played the old fogey card and didn't go ourselves. 5 hours to the next campsite in the Medoc. The last bit was through the perfectly manicured vineyards with their requisite chateau. No time for tasting. Our campsite ...