Free Camping Baby [ - Boo]

We've made it to Cap Ferret which is on the West coast of France, straight West from Bordeaux. The weather has turned scorchio though it's only going to get hotter and we love it. We're free-camping in a Forest picnic / campervan area of which France has heaps and all are free - awesome!

The first thing that has struck us since leaving Objat on Tuesday is how difficult it is to finally slow down and get into the camping life. We spent the first couple of days motoring around the Cap' like crazys, totally missing the point of the whole thing. I suppose 6 months of working like nuts before the trip started; selling old gear, getting as much money in as poss all whilst keeping the legend of Sobertown alive (I miss Captain Morgan like my own mother!) will do that to you... So we spent all of today sitting around on blankets in the Forest reading, eating, whatever-ing and it feels sweet; Tea and Beedies for elevenses and Greek salad with a Rum 'n Coke for lunch.

We're still getting rid of stuff slowly - last night I said goodbye to the rockin' little barbecue which was commanding too much precious floorspace in the van which is needed for big supplies of bottled water in this heat. Can't exactly barbecue in the Forest anyway - the floor's made up of Pine needles and dry wood; yikes!

So now I'm at an Internet Cafe in the Ville de Petit Piquey (opposite another dude on his own laptop smoking Camels and looking fairly unimpressed with whatever's on his screen, while the bar-maid is singing to the French song on the radio and it's quite funny). The Piquey's are a couple of sand dunes and this village is built on a small one and oh do I want to live here when I grow up! Lots of awesome retro motors, boats and plenty surf everywhere. You can surf all day on one side of the Cap Ferret Spit (I think that's what it is) and then drive 5 minutes to the other side for a quiet evening's Rum consumption on the Rivermouth.

So now I have some pesky work to do - projects still to finish but boy can I not wait til the workload is finally put to bed and I can spend my time in Internet Cafe's dissing the Soberton lads on Facebook!

On Monday we plan to head over to Bordeaux, pick up a decent digicam and some other bits and generally peruse the City for thrift junk and other stuff to pack out the bulging little yellow van with!

Me and Monkey on the way to the beach: