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Camping, cooking and a sand boat courtesy of the Glocks

We didn’t get up until almost lunchtime, none of us, Pete and I were up first at around 11am, children started surfacing from 11.30am, we were up until midnight last night on the dunes trying to see the Perseus meteor shower. As usual Pete saw some, so did small boy, I saw none, typical, however,…

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Barbecuing is an international bloke thing

I f I thought that a bunch of blokes standing round a bbq burning food, oops, sorry cooking food was a typically English thing I’m glad to say that it isn’t, it is a European thing. Pete was up at the communal campsite bbq tonight cooking sardines, marinaded in red onions, garlic, lemon juice and…

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Surf chicks

Crack of dawn this morning, we’re on holiday so that means 7.30am, arrrgh, the alarm went off as big, medium and I had to be on the beach by 8.15 to get togged out in wetsuits ready for our first surf lesson of the holiday.  Oh boy, this was bad, severe punishment for wanting to…

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Messanges, South West France – we’ve arrived

We left the lovely campsite just outside Tours to start the 5 hour journey to just north of Biarritz, my total focus was to find as massive an E.Leclerc as I could. I love French Hypermarkets, especially this chain, they usually have fabulous fish counters, often with full 7ft sharks and lobsters (not 7ft ones,…

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