More about Camping l'Etournerie: 31st July
The Next morning. The evening sun shines over the valley into this campsite and it is obvious that everyone here, not much more than a dozen people, mostly Dutch, the rest Brits, turn their chairs toward it to get the last beautiful hours of warm sun. I joined them in this sun worship sitting on a bench looking over a field, of something, I don't have a clue what is growing.
I never sleep that well camping but got up before anyone else at around 8. Where there are no small children there is definitely no early rising. My breakfast order of croissants arrived and I brewed up some acceptable coffee with my rudimentary equipment. Hmm. I've had enough of this tea malarkey. So now I am trying to connect to the wifi here without much success. It is warm already. With nowhere to get to today I am at a bit of a loss how to spend the day. Some people seem to stay here all day others get out and about. I think I need to unwind a bit, to get in to a day of doing nothing not even worrying about how I will get out, get to the next place etc etc. tonight I get my meal at a tent. Let's see what that is like. The campsite owners tell everyone how good it is.
I loafed around reading, the Macfarlane book is improving, two women offered to lend me a bicycle so I could ride down the 3k to the town supermarket but it was going to close for lunch of course so I gobbled up my food bought yesterday (you see, I am right about always having food), had a snooze despite someone starting a strimmer and a cock crowing next to my tent and then cycled down the road to the unremarkable town where I bought some choice items that hopefully won't melt during a day on the back of the bike. Then I got back rather hot from the effort and tried out the pool.
I am off further south tomorrow. My knowledge of the geography of this area is poor so I rely on the GPS to get me to the next campsite. It is 4 and 1/2 hours away according to it, so I will take the quick route, that's a long time for a journey it says is about 180 miles. It has clouded over today, which is fine by me as long as it doesn't rain.