We started the day with a pitch move…. as we decided to stay another night in la rochelle we had to move pitches.  Not too much of a drama and worth the effort as we have ended up with a much better pitch than we were on before, and we are further from the roadworks which start about 6am!

Once we had packed up we moved and did the mountain of washing up from last night…. the move has bought us closer to the facilities, which were more of a bike ride away than a walk, so easier for a wee and doing the washing up!

We hit the pool once the new pitch was set up and enjoyed a couple of hours playing in the water.  We had some races and the children threw me in!  With all that exertion we had a leisurely lunch of cheeses and hams and then I had a snooze in the lay bag whilst the children relaxed and stew had a lay down in the van! super lazy!

We tried to make up for it with a trip on our bikes into town.  We cycled into the town and then round the port and harbour areas… they were absolutely vast!  I just can’t describe how many boats were in the marina.

We headed back into the main city and parked our bikes after meandering for about 10KM.   We walked down to the other side of the harbour and looked at the stalls and found an ice-cream shop which was recommended to us.  Well Miranda… you were right!  Whilst we were in the long queue we decided to have ice cream for tea and each had 3 scoops!  they had every flavour imaginable and I really thought that Penny might burst with excitement!  It was totally delicious! I had black current sorbet, with a salted caramel and a white chocolate combination! 

Whilst we ate it we walked along the back of the walls past some really lovely looking restaurants.  We have decided that when we pop back to la rochelle for a weekend without the children, we will go back and eat somewhere in that road.  We went on and found the little beach and sat on a wall and ate our ice-cream.

We decided that instead of having our dinner out we would head back as we were now 90% icecream and just have a late night swim and some sausages!  The children had the pool to themselves and had a really great time. 

We have just bundled them into bed, worn out, sun kissed and ready for a good sleep!

Im just relaxing now, whilst stew does a little bbq and we can have a couple of hours chilling out and chatting about our next adventure!  Tomorrow we are off to Ile de Re, and plan to head out for a nice cycle to the bridge from our campsite… bon soir!