Campsite beach at sunset

Down the coast to find some beach near Royan.

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September 7th 2011
Fortunately the forecast heavy rain did not materialise, where we were anyway. A bit in the night but once we were out and about the weather was pretty fair and a couple of times the sun was quite hot. We left the lovely Ile de Re, over the impressive soaring bridge and bypassing La Rochelle we headed due south. We decided to check out Rochefort as not been there before but though there were lots ... read more

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