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- 11.10.2024
- ⛅ 19 °C
- Höhe über NN: 33 ft
- FrankreichOccitaniaArgelès-sur-Merel Racó42°32’9” N 3°4’6” E
Day 37 - adventure hike
11. Oktober in Frankreich ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
We started off today with a walk, heading out from our camp site in the direction of the next suggested town, Collioure. The path started off as a nice, flat cycle path which led us to the little beach where we went for a swim yesterday. Carrying on, the path then goes up, up and up along a cliff face. There’s been a lot of erosion to the path, so there were mini diversions but these were sign posted by little yellow spray paint X’s if the path was closed and a - if it was open. We missed a lot of these - unsurprisingly!
It reminded me of the South West Coastal path, lots of up and downs along cliff edges and slightly terrifying in places.
We didn’t have a plan of time or distance, in the end we carried on until the path pretty much ran out. It was very scenic, when I could be brave enough to look up and not down at the path.
At our turn around point, we came across a little ruin which a quick Google has confirmed that its Fort Carré. The route back didn’t seem as bad - maybe it’s because I knew what to expect, but it was a relief to get back to our little beach as I knew it would be flat from there!
We decided to have lunch at the camp restaurant, we would have liked to have had dinner there but it doesn’t open until 6:30 and that’s far too late for us 😂. It’s the same menu all day, so we didn’t miss out on anything. Although it turns out that not many people want a proper meal at lunchtime, we were the only people there. We both went for the vegetarian burger. The description was rather vague - this should have been a clue that something was going to surprise us, and it did. The ‘burger’ part was a rather moist potato Rosti, with massive chunks of roasted veggies on top, all smothered in a creamy mushroom sauce. It wasn’t unpleasant, just very interesting. We had tiramisu for dessert, it was very tasty but not exactly what I would call a tiramisu. The cream was super light and airy, and it didn’t really taste very boozy.
After lunch we relaxed a bit around the camp, it’s a warm day but not too hot. Marla’s been a bit of a grumpy gus today. We thought she would sleep during lunch seeing as we had a good walk this morning, but she’s been really restless. We tried to put her in the van after lunch to sleep for a bit, but I think she has cabin fever and just wants to be outside.
We had a light tea of cheese and bread, and my new favourite flavour of crisps, Cheese Naan!
Marla finally relaxed a bit after dinner so we’ve been all settled inside catching up on some TV and I’ve been doing a little bit of crocheting.Weiterlesen