Day 4 and 5

The big lump at the bottom of the shadow is my luggage.

 Didn't sleep quite as well, but well enough. A bit tired so planned a shorter day and stop b4 ferry across Bordeaux estuary. Mainly v good pistes again (see the lovely bicycle roundabout). Finally found camping at Soulac around 3pm. Tent, shower, laundry by hand.

Sunday so all shops closed. But managed enough for a frugal eve meal. Beach and paddling in ocean.

219.8 miles

Day 5

Difficult to sleep. Got up at 5am to catch early ferry across the Bordeaux estuary. Lovely morning run starting in the dark, alongside a railway track. Rabbits and what I thought might have been hare (but wasn't - just a rabbit with big ears). Proper ferry.

Into Poitou-Charentes and v different countryside - rolling agriculture after the Fibonacci forests of the south. Different roadkill too; a hedgehog, three snakes and a fox in the middle of the road.

A transporter bridge over the next big river.

Lost in Rochefort and a diversion for a Foire au Puces. Found a lovely campsite with an oasis pool - all sand. Very hot, so pool very welcome. 269