The weathers not been especially kind to us today but we have timed it well…..

We woke up beside the beach to beautiful blue sky’s…. It was our first 1 night stop and it worked well. The campsite was basic but with clean toilets and showers and free wifi the location right beside the sea and easy access to amazing sea food more than made up for it. We had planned to head off from our last site to stay in an aire du camping car, which is basically a car park for campervan s ( well motor homes but freckle qualifies!) but you are not allowed to it anything up and there are no toilet facilities. We saw an aire as we passed mont st Michelle and thought that it would be a good way to offset some cost as its only €9.50 per night ( a cheap site in high season it’s around €25 as a guide) and we thought that it would be a good test. Although once we arrived at mont st Michel it appeared we were dragging the could with us. We were the envy of all he people in the car park when we pulled up, had a tasty picnic (prepared by Caroline earlier) and then had a fresh coffee whilst we waited for the storm to blow over. After we showed our bottoms to the car park (we needed a wee on the portaloo!) we headed off to catch the free shuttle (free with the €12 parking) to the base of the mount. We got out of the bus as the sun came out… It was breath takingly beautiful. You could totally see why it was built as the view went on for miles. We could see our private beach where we had our picnic the day before, and the flats that approach it. Inside the drawbridge were windy streets of tourist shops and restaurants, dotted in between museums and churches. We all thought it looked like diagon alley as penny and Fraser were convinced that Harry potter lived at the top. After wondering around the sights and seeing the fortifications, Caroline lit a candle for her Nonnie in the church and we decided that the children would prefer an ice cream to a visit around the Chappell.
As we made our way back down the hill the clouds appeared again, rolling across the landscape and seeming extremely full of rain we decided it was time to head back to freckle. Luckily we had taken waterproofs as the heavens opened. We decided that it may be better to save our first night in an aire until the weather was more dependable as sitting outside in that weather would have been no fun. We decided to head to our next destination a day early and see if they could fit us in. We arrived in Rennes just after a tremendous storm. The campsite itself is amazing, it’s in a forrest and had a farm for the children, an ice rink and a swimming pool along with something that looks distinctively like go ape! Our pitch is lovely and we are proud to report that for the first time this holiday our head will be at the same level tonight. Go us!

For our tea we had moules we bought from a shack is morning by the sea and some delicious bread we got from a patisserie this morning. the moules were freshly harvested, and we also got oysters for tomorrow night for when mum and dad arrive….. Yummy!

Tomorrow we are planning a quiet day and a local explore of the site. As I’m sitting here we are sitting at the end of a rainbow! The only sounds I can hear are the birds chirping Caroline’s bottom talking! Bliss!