28th November 2012 

It has been a quiet day at Le Ocean camping.

                                                   The Sea

“There’s something about watching the waves of the Atlantic” says Noel philosophically, That’s because of the wave I said, but then he said you had had the spiritual awakening that you seem to have experienced when we were up in the mountains.  It’s the rocks!  He said It is just as beautiful and bleak, staring out to sea etc etc

                                  The cute kid at the Campsite

We’ve been here for the last 3 days, not doing very much except for a few minor repairs and tidying up of the van. As usual the question arose about how much stuff we’ve got in the van and what to do with them. We are getting better at this but needs much more brutal “thinning out” and the fairly minor matter of getting our steering sorted out is starting to weigh heavy. As the mechanic has said ‘you can drive it, but don’t take it in the desert or on any long journeys’.  OH!

The local fisherman has been round on his motorbike, the box he had on the back was packed with fish freshly caught this morning. The haggling over the price was obligatory, he knew it and I knew it, in the end, even though I got it down to less than half of what he asked for it still felt that I have been had.

The Fish

Preparing the fish was a bit of an experience – I seem to have lost that skill, by the time I finished, I felt as though I have been in a massacre. It was delicious though!

So it all rather pleasant here but we are starting to get itchy feet.

                    The campsite