A few hours after our early afternoon departure from Capestang, we made a stop at the beautiful village of Le Somail to fill up outr water tanks. I went for a wander, took photos of the stunnning ivy covered hotel/restaurant and sniffed out a little wine seller where I purchased a couple bottles of rose to chill for dinner. Once our tanks were full (that's the water, we weren't 'tanked up' … yet!) we moved on and motored up to Ventenac, the fabled village du vin terry and Kath had told us about. I saw the chateau on approach and kicked myself for buying wine just 2 hours ago … I hadn't realised how close we were!! However, when we pulled up and tied our boat to some trees, we wandered over to find the chateau
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