Pastries to start the day again, sat in the sunshine. We ended up having one or two wines last night with our neighbours, so a strong coffee was needed too. We decided to head to the beach to see what it was all about here. Once again the locals scuttled off to the beach at the same time, so we had learned to follow them and copy what they did! We only had a plastic rake and a sandcastle bucket but we followed their technique, and were soon rewarded with a bucket full of clams and cockles. There were literally hundreds of people raking up the flat black muddy sand the tide left behind. In the distance we could see more of the mussel poles, but I don’t think the tide would go out far enough to walk out. The kids played in the rock pools and were confidently picking up crabs. Fraser caught a shrimp and both were fascinated by the marine life beneath their feet. After a snack we headed into town to buy some rakes for tomorrow and to pick up oysters and bread for the evening, we contemplated the purchase of some chairs and got the smalls an ice cream before heading back. We had a rest and continued reading gangsta granny, the holiday book that keeps both entertained with its talk of cabbage trumps. Fraser soon tired of sitting still, desperate to get to the beach and get his wetsuit on!

The beach is literally 30 seconds away and it’s utterly pointless putting shoes on as it takes longer to do them up than you are walking. The tide was in and it was flat calm. The kids were happy running in and out and then daddy buried the children in the sand. I hadn’t taken a camera but will do it again today!

Moules for tea, after I had to do an Emergancy dash into town as the ones we bought in the supermarket had gone off! So when I got to the fishmongers I also picked up some oysters, prawns and crab claws. By this point we had a task of getting some over tired children settled for sleep!

We have new neighbours, again they are english. yesterdays neighbours knew a friend of ours, these ones parents live in botley and winchester! They also have a T2, and its exactly the same as my brothers van Dave! We ended up staying up late eating cheese and chutney!!

Right wine o clock!