I had a week off from writing on this blog last week because I was on holiday with my family near Saint-Jean-de-Monts in the Vendee region of France. It’s an area that we have visited before and the intention was simply to have a few days away not rushing about visiting places but reading books, relaxing on the beach or by the pool and just doing simple things. When we arrived at 9pm on the Sunday evening after a very smooth ferry crossing from Plymouth to Roscoff and a 4.5 hour drive southwards, the temperature was still over 30 degrees Celsius, but for the rest of the week it was considerably cooler than this with sunny days interspersed with cloudier ones with some rain midweek. We went to the beach a couple of times, swam in the sea (just the once), played on the excellent mini-golf courses near to the site we were staying at, spent quite a lot of time in French supermarkets, did a couple of runs including an 11 mile one and had a few evening trips to wander along the beach/waterfront in various places.
On the Monday night we walked to the local beach (Plage de Paree de Jonc) and caught a most wonderful sunset which I just about managed to capture the glory of. I think I will leave my best picture of it to do the talking here…
Tim O'Hare 