Our last morning on ile d'olleron was a nice sunny one. Stew and penny cycled to the village for bread, whilst fraser "helped" me with sorting the clothes and tidying up ready for packing up.

Whilst we packed the children went for a last swim… our last campsite doesn't have a pool…. just the sea!

We left and because it's the French bank holiday weekend the traffic was awful… we put on the apple maps app and ended up skipping around a lot of the traffic, although the roads were significantly less favourable! We ended up Going a very convoluted route which took us to…… another decathlon! Our fourth of the holiday and just the same as the rest!!! Stew still couldn't come out without making a purchase!!

We did a big supermarket shop…. essentials like sausages, wine and oysters! Stew has been concerned at our lack of heavy alcohol consumption, so we have expanded the bar service at "au bar freckle".

The children got macaroons as big as their heads, stew had 2 choix buns and I had an amazing chocolate twist! Mmmmmm

Back on the road for the last stretch to Noirmoutier. We saw on the map an alternative route onto the island and realised that the causeway linking the island to the mainland at low tide was available to us! I was really excited as the first time I heard about Noirmoutier was on the program one man and his campervan… and I knew it existed but had never seen it.

As we approached the causeway there was a lot of French warnings… we think they said that the tide was on its way in… but there were still cars crossing and we were taller than they were…. so we decided to do it! It was so exciting! Lots of people were taking pics of Freckle and waving! Dad – I don't think it's one for the caravan!! There is a webcam on the causeway too. http://uk.ile-noirmoutier.com/ot-noirmoutier-en/principal-en/my-useful-info/meteo-marees-webcam-en/webcam

We got to camp and got set up… it's just so nice here! The tide was high and the sun shining. We had a BBQ, the kids had oysters again and this time fraser loved them (and then ate 3!) and penny enjoyed it but stopped at 2! The oysters were from ile d'olleron and were small and sweet. I think that there was much more commercial production of oysters of d'olleron…. huge areas growing them.

The children were out like lights and we weren't far behind. Just time to look up at the persides metor shower…. the sky is so dark here!

The Mosquitos love it here too!