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Date:  Sunday 2nd July 2017       Weather:  Brighter    Mile:  000 / 133 

On the Road Again  If I could work it out at this point you would be listening to Willie Nelson singing 'On the Road Again'. Alas.

I'm pretty desperate for a haircut and despite my invitation to Joy-Anne, my personal hairdresser, to fly out for the weekend and cut my hair, she has still not appeared. Angie offers and I accept.

1045hrs. With a degree of sadness we take our leave of Angie and Tom. They have been saviours during this, what could have been, quite a difficult interlude.

Mortagne-sur-Gironde.

1415hrs We arrive at the port of Montagne-sur-Gironne. The journey here has been most enjoyable. Mainly good straight dual carriageways. On leaving the Limousin we entered the grape growing area of Cognac. Here the vista changed completely to wide open aspects, fields stretching away into the distance. Here and there sunflowers started to appear as we drew further West. They, like the sweetcorn grew taller, many with their yellow heads turned toward the sun. They still had some way to grow but soon they too would be harvested for their oil. Jackie had done a great job of driving today and I, in all honesty had done a fair job of navigating. Fair because I missed a turning directing us from the last village down to Mortagne and Le Port.

Mortagne, the inner harbour.

No sooner had we arrived than we were connected to the mains electricity, switched over the fridge and put Angie's emergency soup rations on to heat. God bless her she had issued 'bag rats' consisting of home made soup and a raspberry tart. We walked to the ticket machine inserted our credit card, selected two nights stay and paid E18-60 to include 'leccy'. There is a channel that leads slightly inland from the Gironde which in turn ends in a basin or marina. There are numerous yachts and motor cruisers moored. At the far end, nearest the river, there is overflow parking for camping cars. This aire  has about 60 places all gravel pull-ins for the vehicle then surrounded by grass. Many with electricity.

It's seems to be a popular part of the coast to visit. As we sit eating our lunch, the world and his wife stop to gawk at the camper. Probably 'cos it's UK registered. It's brighter now and the tide is starting to drop. It would seem like a nice place to explore but today we decide to chill. Hopefully the sun will be out tomorrow and we can wander around the marina and boat yard.