Bordeaux – Lege Cap Ferret
Having not done any major towns or cities recently we looked forward to seeing Bordeaux. Rightfully so! We drove into town following the parking signs for “tourist cars”. It lead to a leafy parking spot right on the river and we decided to explore the city from there on our bike.
The city is so well structured and organised, this being the result of the last major pouring moning into the infrastructure so much so that he was accused of squandering money. Nevertheless it is great, cycle lanes sepertaing you from the trams and cars. It was great. The inner city in mostly pedestrianised which made for some wonderful walking about. It is a University town with a very large international presence that was felt when browzing the busy markets.
After a few hours we were tired and we had one to many fench sweetcakes filled with Nutella that we decided to head back to Rub y. We hitched the bicycles back on and decided to head on out back to the beach.
We found a small camsite in Lege Cap Ferrat. It was a very nice two star site fr only 20 Euros. Cheap compared to some. It was not long before a English gentalman came to talk to us making comments about Ruby. His name was Peter Smith and his wife was Jilly. They were retired schoolteachers and had been coming to the site for the past 9 years. He had owned several LDV vans (like Ruby) and we had lots to talk about. He gave us some good maintenance tips. Lovely people.
After we were talked out and hungry we went our separate ways to make dinner. Amy tried to test out her newly acquired French skills with the toddler neighbour and his Mom. Pointing and laughing worked with the toddler..... the Mom thought we were strange.
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