After I posted last nights blog, the children had been tucked up in bed as they were pooped and Stew and I were reading our books, and contemplating some chicken wings to accompany our wine and we saw a flicker in the distance… then again…. and then again followed by a clap on thunder. We discussed for a few minutes if we could be bothered to put up our orange shelter and decided that as it was going to rain between 9 and 10 (precisely) that it was probably worth it. As we started putting it up it became clear that he thunder was approaching and literally the moment we had finished putting it up there was an almighty clap of thunder and the heavens opened. It was great as whilst the storm was overhead the whole campsite was peaceful and we could just cook the chicken, drink the wine and enjoy the sound of the rain!

We only went to bed when our light ran out of charge and snuggled down for a stormy night.

We woke up to more rain this morning and were really lazy, all in our beds late and then after a lazy patisserie breakfast more coffee and reading.

By the time it got to about 3pm we decided we should go for a bike ride and headed in the direction of la flotte. We had a walk around and then decided that as we had the fishing lines in the bike basket we would stop for a drink by the harbour. The small people set up their stuff and we ordered the drinks… only to hear fraser shout that he's caught a fish. He held onto it so I could take a photo, and went to throw it back in whe instead he chucked it onto the pontoon below… the fish was dazed but still alive so penny climbed down below to the pontoon and picked it up by its tail and it slithered away…. as fraser shouted "come on up Penny I'm going to catch it again!"

The port itself couldn't look more French! The children were after an ice ream and as we could see the stall we encouraged them to go and get their own and use their French… the practiced and apparently chucked out at the last moment asking in English… but they still did it themselves and they were looking very proud.

We found a shop selling oysters and popped into a small supermarket to grab some essentials and headed back to the campsite for the children to have some savoury pancakes and for a late swim in the pool!

All in all a very relaxing and fun day!