Living Like Small Kings & Queens

We've made it to Mimizan and the little town south of it called Lit et Mixe. Since the Dune we've camped in a car park on the beach at Mimizan Plage Sud (South Beach) for two days where we endured a big thunder-and-lightning storm, a crazy Austrian old bat in her solo campervan and some fucked up sun stroke brought on by long walks along the huge endless beach in search of surf.

En route to Mimizan we made the typical mistake of missing the shops before 12 and then forgetting it's a Sunday so the shops don't open again at 2.30pm and you're stuffed for groceries so we drove on until 5 when we made the car park at Mimizan and ate a few bites, hit the sunset and then in the evening we cooked up an awesome dish with little ingredients which consisted roughly: Rice (long) in vegetable stock with onions fried with garlic, stem ginger and balsamic vinegar and it tasted like heaven. This lasted all of 5 minutes however as my rice-portion-judging-skills are super-ass-like-lame and I made enough for a small army of fleas but the recipe was repeated next day with added Mushrooms (which soak up all the other flavours) and tomatoes and it rocked our tastebuds into the next morning when we went back to Plage Remember (North beach of Mimizan) which seemed to have the best pick of the small waves and scored some lovely mellow surf for 3 hours.

We're now camped in Lit et Mixe - a small town we stayed at 2 years ago - and camping cheap on a farm where we've done a shed load of washing by hand in the awesome old-skool wash basin they have here which is surely the better way to wash your clothes than damn tricky, fickle washing machines on their 45 minute wash cycle which is just long enough time for you to forget you've put any washing in and then leave your clothes to rot for 2 days. I like doing things the old way like that; it's more social too as it's way more better to do with two sets of hands than one. Ollie could probably even invent a drinking game out of it!

On the way here from Mimizan we stopped at some shops and stocked up on awesome food stuffs including flour and sugar so that we can make and bake cakes all day long if we want because this little campervan has an awesome gas oven installed. So Kitty is making some sort of Apple and Banana pie and it smells awesome in this little space and now it feels less like we're camping - getting used to it - and more living like Kings!; we had Pork Chops in a handmade-by-Kitty garlic, soy and ginger marinade with mushroom and onion garnish for tea last night; onion, sweet pepper and pesto omelette for lunch and now we're about to eat some frickin awesome fruit pie as a snack before dinner oh baby oh baby!

Onward... tomorrow we may head back to Mimizan to check out a small festival there and then we're heading south to Seignosse / Hossegor / Biarritz and then the Pyrenees.... whooop!