You have to love pine forests and sand dunes otherwise this isn’t the trip for you. Covered 32 miles today and saw little else. So there was plenty of this ……
and an awful lot of that ….
No wrestling for a bit of beach space here!!
Took a spin up the lighthouse at Contis-Plage which is described in the guidebook as looking like a stick of barley sugar. (146 steps to the top if you must know). For the nerds it flashes 4 times every 25 seconds. Great view from the top tho’. However the sad thing is there is no longer a lighthouse keeper as it is controlled automatically from Bayonne 60 miles away to the south. ‘Gonnae no dae that!!’
Arrived tonight at Mimizan Plage which appears to be famous for two things: firstly, it is allegedly the centre of French naturism and secondly it seems to be the French capital of sweet sugary substances. I have a beautiful technicolour picture of one of these characteristics.
Sadly I didn’t bring a telephoto lens on this trip so don’t have a photo of the other. Aw well!!….
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