Wednesday 3rd September
We decided we'd like to explore this area, so booked in for another night and set off on our bikes. We followed the riverside for a while and then away from it to the village of La Pommeraye. On our map it looked flat, but we soon discovered that there was a lot of up involved! But of course that gave us views, so with a lot of pushing the bikes and puffing, past rows and rows of vines, now looking as though they are ready for picking, we reached La Pommeraye. After eating our filled baguettes from the boulangerie in Montjean, we found a few geos and then set off down again - different route. This was much quicker than going up (!) and we could look down on Montjean. The church is built really high up in the village and this road brought us straight to this level. It is more like a cathedral than a small town church, with huge flying buttresses.
A lot of campsites now have white shiplap cabins for hire - they appear to have superceded the Eurocamp-style tents - but some of them have private owners, with little gardens, sheds, gnomes, whatever .... A man and a cat live in one close by us and when we were relaxing, reading, after our dinner, we realised that the cat was happily lapping up all the chicken juices from the foil in our Remoska. It also had some piripiri sauce in it, so we hope he didn't have a tummy upset later! When his owner called him in for his dinner, he didn't seem to be in any hurry .....
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| Zoomed view of Montjean church from campsite in evening sun |
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