Marching Bands

Our great campsite near Cap Roux required a hiking exit, but luckily Claire was motivated to start the day (certainly not always the case!). We enjoyed more quiet coastal road for the morning until we reached Saint Raphaël and Fréjus, after which traffic picked up considerably on a road with virtually no shoulder. We stopped in Sainte-Maxime looking for indoor activity options to help weather a forecasted downpour, but instead enjoyed several hours of sunshine on the beach. We then headed to Cogolin to stay with Gordon, a cyclist we'd met on the Canal du Midi, only to experience: ongoing processions for the town's annual celebrations (interesting at first, but tiring after ongoing rifle shots fired each block), another deluge (that we luckily got to weather under cover again), and a lack of restaurants serving dinner at appropriate pre-schooler dinner hours (but we did succeed in delicious eating eventually!). We were happy to end the day under a roof, with tea in hand, catching up with Gordon and planning a rest day ahead.Read more