Easy EasyJet made our trip to Bordeaux very simple. Gatwick was very weay to navigate - droop rental car, push bags to check in, no lineups, lots of walking. A stop at duty free made the priority boarding unnecessary!! Ted not amused...WE had 3 seats for the two of us so a comfortable ride, and after a greasefix breakfat, no need to worry about drinks or food on board.
Into nice Bordeaux airport, again easy car rental with Hertz, cost twice as much as the UK cars, and soon ot of the airport ad rund a roundabout several times to connect to the ocean road.
A nice drive through pine forests much like Oregon coast, with dunes at the end of the road too. We were now in comunication with Liz, who had arrived at the hotel just beofre us, left us insructions how to find it (quite intricate and difficult) but I didn't see them until after we had checked in and found the hotel quite easily! Yeah for GPS.
I later found that I had run up $100 in roaming charges quite quickly (19meg at $5/meg) so Telus has cut me off until I buy a package...holding off on that as I should be Ok on wifi now.
The small boutique hotel on the beach at Arcachon was really lovely, walking distance to all the good restaurants, market, oyster market, boat tript over to Cap Ferrat, perfect really.
We spent 3 days there, quaffing oysters apace, along with lots of other lovely seafood and fish. It's a town where retired folks with plenty of money hang out but we managed not to run up too many big bills, even though we ate like kings or rois the whole time. Ice cream shops provided a little variance in the diet, esp. once we discovered the cassis variety.
It was hot (32 one day) and sunny, with some fluffy clouds for variety some days, almost a relief. But cool enough for the leather jacket in the evening all the same.
At the daily market we bought melons, figs, strawbs, peaches, pears, stocking up for our journey. Then a drive to the oyster bed area east of Arcachon, and lunch at a super little restuarant on the river with a plate of fruit de mer - grey shrimp (eat the whole thing apart from the head), prawns, whelks, cockles washed down with a bottle of white Entre de Mers, which we are finding perfectly compliments everything we eat.
Later we took our tastebuds to the gym again at the swanky Victoria restaurant where the food was mostly really good but we were cold with the doors to the ocean open all evening...
WE spent our last day in Arcachon taking the boat over toe Cap Feerrett, the little train out to the beach, back to squat on stools at the bar for more oysters and shellfish (no mussels, Liz is allergic) and a nice walk along their beach too.
Our last night we checked out another swanky place, Chez Pierre, and he did not disappoint. WE headed to the bar for the rest of my party to quaff a cognac and finish our day properly. Our waistlines are not gonna thank us for all this later...
Into nice Bordeaux airport, again easy car rental with Hertz, cost twice as much as the UK cars, and soon ot of the airport ad rund a roundabout several times to connect to the ocean road.
A nice drive through pine forests much like Oregon coast, with dunes at the end of the road too. We were now in comunication with Liz, who had arrived at the hotel just beofre us, left us insructions how to find it (quite intricate and difficult) but I didn't see them until after we had checked in and found the hotel quite easily! Yeah for GPS.
I later found that I had run up $100 in roaming charges quite quickly (19meg at $5/meg) so Telus has cut me off until I buy a package...holding off on that as I should be Ok on wifi now.
The small boutique hotel on the beach at Arcachon was really lovely, walking distance to all the good restaurants, market, oyster market, boat tript over to Cap Ferrat, perfect really.
We spent 3 days there, quaffing oysters apace, along with lots of other lovely seafood and fish. It's a town where retired folks with plenty of money hang out but we managed not to run up too many big bills, even though we ate like kings or rois the whole time. Ice cream shops provided a little variance in the diet, esp. once we discovered the cassis variety.
It was hot (32 one day) and sunny, with some fluffy clouds for variety some days, almost a relief. But cool enough for the leather jacket in the evening all the same.
At the daily market we bought melons, figs, strawbs, peaches, pears, stocking up for our journey. Then a drive to the oyster bed area east of Arcachon, and lunch at a super little restuarant on the river with a plate of fruit de mer - grey shrimp (eat the whole thing apart from the head), prawns, whelks, cockles washed down with a bottle of white Entre de Mers, which we are finding perfectly compliments everything we eat.
Later we took our tastebuds to the gym again at the swanky Victoria restaurant where the food was mostly really good but we were cold with the doors to the ocean open all evening...
WE spent our last day in Arcachon taking the boat over toe Cap Feerrett, the little train out to the beach, back to squat on stools at the bar for more oysters and shellfish (no mussels, Liz is allergic) and a nice walk along their beach too.
Our last night we checked out another swanky place, Chez Pierre, and he did not disappoint. WE headed to the bar for the rest of my party to quaff a cognac and finish our day properly. Our waistlines are not gonna thank us for all this later...
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