Day 19 - Mind Blowingly Beautiful

And I’m not just talking about Jackie!!!

I started the morning at 7.18am by reversing out of our sleeping pod on all fours and naked. Halfway through my manoeuvre I remembered that our tent door was open with just the see through mesh across to keep the insects out.

I prayed our German neighbours were not up or they were going to be confronted with a sight that would haunt them for weeks. Luckily they weren’t.

I rewrote my blog whilst Jackie cooked up bacon sandwiches and coffee. Our German neighbours seemed a bit sheepish and not so talkative. Hopefully it wasn’t my bare arse! Jackie thought it was probably due to the washing line debacle from the previous evening.

I made the decision to try and clarify the situation and thus clear the air. I wrote a note on my phone and translated it into the German and showed them the text below -

“Ich wollte nicht, dass du deine Wäscheleine abnimmst. Ich wollte dich fragen, ob es dir nichts ausmacht, wenn ich darunter gehe”.

This seemed to do the trick and there was much joviality that neither of us understood, but at least everyone was happy.

After breakfast, we showered, I washed up and we explored our campsite. It is only two thirds full, but it is a little stunner. Big grassy pitches and very few kids. In fact half of those are young goats!

Everything is perfect except :- all the amenities are quite a walk from our pitch, there is no shop, there is the odd ‘bitey’ thing in the grass at night and we need our own toilet paper.

Most campers have cycles with baskets on the front to get around the spacious campsite. We didn’t get the memo.

The beach is apparently just 300 metres away (as the crow flies), but about a 700 metres walk along the road to the beach entrance.

Our first glimpse of the beach left us speechless, well Jackie for all of a few seconds. It was utterly jaw-droppingly gorgeous. It had to be one of, if not the most scenic beaches we have ever had the good fortune to set eyes on. We could not believe how beautiful it was (which Jackie reiterated to me nearly a thousand times) AND virtually empty!

We selected our spot and Jackie deemed the beauty of the beach and its solitude, worthy of her going topless.

We did move on on one occasion to another spot which was even lovelier than the first following my exploration walk of the entire beach.

We spent the whole day on the beach, swimming and drinking wine from a flask. When the flask was empty, Jackie volunteered to return to camp for a wine refill and for more water. I looked after our stuff!

It was well over an hour later, before Jackie returned all hot and bothered. Apparently she had got lost (no surprises there), walked into the wrong campsite & when she finally returned to our tent, the Germans invited her in for a chat.

‘Apparently they live in Cologne. He is a retired teacher. They have a son who is arriving today with his family. They had a 2nd son who sadly died shortly after a surfing accident only last year’.

We remained on the beach until 6.15pm. We got up to leave and Jackie came over all dizzy and nauseous. It was sunstroke, due to a lack of water and a substantial meal over the last couple of days.

It was a tortuous 30 minute walk back to camp, pausing at every tiny patch of shade. After 15 minutes in a shaded chair, Jackie was good to go shopping.

It was a 15 minute drive to E.Leclerc where we split up looking for our allocated items. I bought another flask (for beach wine), wine (obviously), sausages, biscuits and chocolate. Jackie did the rest.

We returned to camp just after 8pm and Jackie sprang into action getting a bolognaise prepped. As sous chef, I was run ragged, washing mushrooms and stirring the pot.

It was a lovely spaghetti bolognaise which we ate at 9.40pm. Jackie then went straight to bed, because she wasn’t feeling well (too much sun). She must have been feeling particularly rough, because she didn’t even drink her wine.

I was left to amuse myself by washing up, doing my blog and emptying the wine glasses, before going to bed over two hours later.

Song of the Day - Sunstroke by The Vapors.Okumaya devam et