With some clouds in the sky and the sun trying to peek out we made a good start and headed to …… McDonalds, purely to use the Wifi and post yesterday’s blog of course, although a coffee seemed only civil whilst we were there. Leaving La Rochelle behind we set our sights for Saintes. Woolly says – It was a nice drive, although I think we are getting a bit blasé about the countryside now. Gone are the cries of cows, sheep and other points of interest on our route, instead we settled back with a bit of Marrillion and let the kilometres race away. We found our destination easily, Jo and I knew what it was but Ian had refused to show us any pictures and seeing it for the first time I was glad.
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