Monday, June 26, 2006
heading south but still no net access
Duh. Arrived at La Foret, a campsite at the base of Dune La Pyla – at about 114 metres, apparently the largest sand dune in Europe – at about 6.30 yesterday afternoon. It had been a longish day – driving down the rather boring A10 autoroute, negotiating the manic drivers as we by-passed Bordeaux and then finding our way around the one way system in Arcachon to stock up on supplies.
Found a nice shaded site and set up camp. Couldn’t figure out why the ground underneath the awning was like cement – and very stony too. With the awning almost fully set-up and everything in its place for camping Sandra arrived back from the toilet. A lot of people seem to have parked their cars on that stony bit. A light bulb came on over my had – we’d only gone and bleeding parked on the driveway! Bloody posh French campsites - don't have any of that in Ireland!
Anyway the reason for the sporadic updates is that after getting a laptop brought out by some family members we were hooking up with, we've managed to camp in two sites where I can't get a mobile signal for 3G internet access. At least it means I'm not stuick to the keyboard all the time.
Found a nice shaded site and set up camp. Couldn’t figure out why the ground underneath the awning was like cement – and very stony too. With the awning almost fully set-up and everything in its place for camping Sandra arrived back from the toilet. A lot of people seem to have parked their cars on that stony bit. A light bulb came on over my had – we’d only gone and bleeding parked on the driveway! Bloody posh French campsites - don't have any of that in Ireland!
Anyway the reason for the sporadic updates is that after getting a laptop brought out by some family members we were hooking up with, we've managed to camp in two sites where I can't get a mobile signal for 3G internet access. At least it means I'm not stuick to the keyboard all the time.
