So last nights blog was late because I was too busy having a midnight feast if cheese and chutney with our new neighbours, also vw nuts, um, I mean enthusiasts! We got bitten alive, drank cheap red wine out of a wine box and compared holiday notes. They have a daughter who is now penny’s new best friend, who is 1 month older than her. They have been comparing their homes on wheels and had to have their hair plaited in the same way this morning! I can feel tears coming tomorrow morning when it’s time for us to move on.

This mornings pastries were from the campsite pop up bakery…. And if I’m honest a tad disappointing (I’m becoming somewhat of a connoisseur of the croissant!) but they were set off well by some of our strawberry jam…. The 1kg jar we bought with us is gradually getting eaten!

We got showered and dressed and headed down to the beach to collect some more seafood with our proper rakes, it was much easier with the rake and penny caught 19 crabs…. The tide was out firer this time and there was a route over to the mussels. I was also struck by how differently people were foraging…. Some favoured the mussels, whilst others went for razor clams or ordinary clams that we nestled in little clumps under the black sand. Once you found one you could be sure to find 5 or 6 more.

Lunch of cheese and cured meats before a lovely rest for an hour, stew dozed and the stalls watched a film to get out of the hottest of the sun.

We then got on the bikes and cycled past the salt flats into the town, to have an ice cream and to buy some new chairs….. Hurray! I can’t tell you how excited I am, or how challenging it was to get them home, strapped it to the side of the stews bike.

We got ready and headed straight to the beach for high tide, and it was beautiful. The sea was so clear, the sand so soft and the sky so blue. Penny and stew swam out to the boats that we walked past this morning, then we buried the children in the sand. We also buried stew!

Sausages for tea and an evening sitting in the new chairs ahead. It’s getting a bit chillier now and the wind is picking up, apparently there is rain forecast here for tomorrow, but we head south, so fingers crossed the sun continues to shine on freckle! I’m hopping for another cheesey midnight feast tonight, and that the mosquito bite count is a little lower than last night….. Bon nuit x