Tapp's Travels

As you may have gathered, the days are merging into one another.  The weather has been fabulous – just one overcast day and even that was a good walking day anyway!  We did a rough tally the other day and we have walked about 60 miles in total. Quite a bit is duplicated where we have to walk back by the same route, of course.

It’s not all walking, however!  We have had a several evenings socialising with four other campers who are regulars on this site at this time of year.

… And the six of us had lunch out at the imaginatively named “Le Vieux Columbier” at St. Columbier.  Of course, to get our daily walk quota in that day we had to do an early morning walk followed by a shower, change and lunch. This, in turn, was followed by a quick change back into walking gear and another walk on the gulf coast.

Whoops, that was my picture of the ladies playing volleyball on the naturist beach the other day.  I didn’t realise that WordPress has an auto-censor function – uxorious almost! (But more of that later!)

The photos of the Gulf coast path now follow:

Here, the yacht in the centre was going nowhere (into the current) while the other boat raced past with the tide. Phenomenal currents hereabouts.

The walking paths are conveniently marked with white and red and sometimes yellow as well. These marks are painted on any convenient object – lamp-post, tree, rock, fence, cow, horse…  Of course, on the coast path we only have to keep the water on one side. If our feet get wet we veer a bit away from the water and keep going.

This marker is unusually decorative – and I fibbed about way-marks on cows and horses by the way. They don’t really do that!  Do they?  OK – so then go left here…

But which way here?

Which ever way you choose, the air is obviously extremely clean around the coast here.  The lichen is super-abundant on the bushes.

Walking from Port du Crouesty In a generally South-Easterly direction (which actually means setting off in a North-Westerly direction because the coastline is so crooked, crinkly and convoluted around here!), we came to a remarkable hotel. It’s shaped just like an ocean-going liner complete with two funnels and water round the bows. However, it is completely land-locked and runs as the Miramar Crouesty Hotel Thalasso and Spa. 

We broke into this hotel a couple of years ago by the back door which, as it happens, is in the ship’s bow at water-level. We entered via a conveniently unlocked gate from the beach. Across the gang-plank over the surrounding “ocean” (pond) and into the heart of lower-deck cabins.  We found the bar/restaurant on the top deck easily enough, but could we find the main doors to exit. Could we, hell?  Well, who puts the main entrance on the second floor (deck)? Anyway, the hotel management have now sealed off that security malfunction.   We couldn’t get in that way the year!

But that’s enough of that.

We are looking forward to hearing your comments and news.