La Tranche-sur-Mer

Cumul: 727 km

This morning brings the news that Cucumber Spritz and Cahors wine make a painful combination.
We breakfast on “the Remblai”. The station is really busy with both a “World championship of stand up paddle” and the departure of a transatlantic race that had been postponed because of the weather.
We follow the coast cutting through thick air sticky with salt. The sailboats are heading for the french Caribbean and it is moving to see them all getting smaller on our horizon.
The day clears and gets hot. We eat yet another f***ing sandwich and decree we are sick of it.
We arrive in La-Tranche-sur-Mer. The campground is quite beautiful and right in the center. It must be very noisy in season..
The village itself is a good surprise, houses in the area are not bringing anything exciting to the architectural world but it is well maintained, shutters are brightly painted, walls are freshly white washed. The old center is reviving and the streets are paved with natural stones of different colors, a main square is surrounded by globe shaped pine trees. It is the quintessential Atlantic Coast village.
We find an improbable bar that serves us a fresh red berries smoothie with view on the Bay d’Aunis. The waves come diagonally which gives them a strange verdigris color in the sundown.
It feels a bit like Greece.
The bar also serve bier and mojito..Read more