Busy day. Crazy golf (Caroline won by 4 strokes), swimming in the pool, lunch on the promenade at Les Sables D'Olonne, bit of messing about on the beach and a swim, hired a canoe for the 4 of us and went paddling around the salt marshes. The area is famous for it's salt marshes where they create small 'ponds' to trap the salt water and then harvest the salt as the water evaporates. The area is known as Les Salines. Finally we all ate out in a restaurant close to the camp site in the evening.
Finished reading Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong by fading sunlight. I enjoyed the book and learn much about French history, their culture and political system. It has added quite a bit of clarity as to why some things are the way they are. I realised that the French culture is different, but now I appreciate quite how different. As an Englishman living in France I think we forget that our closet neighbour can be so different from us. I did find that the authors tended to repeat themselves towards the end, reusing previous examples to make a different point, but on the whole I would recommend the book to any 'Anglo-Saxon' living, or going to live, in France.
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