We arrived in Caen (Ouistreham) at 21:30 last night and stayed
at the Pommiers Municipal campsite, which was nothing special but was very
convenient being 5 minutes from the port.
The next morning we set off early for a long drive south to
Maillezais in the Vendee. We normally travel slowly taking in as many sights as
we can on the route but we wanted to get to the Pyrenees fairly quickly, so
this was a day of driving.
We arrived in Maillezais early enough to park up in the aire
and take a walk around the pretty village and admire the pretty church.
Maillezais is in the Marais of the Vendee, a vast area of
flat land criss-crossed by thousands of water channels, large and small. This
is very similar to our home area of the Somerset Levels, both areas having been
marsh land before the local abbots decided to create a water system to drain the
marshes and create fertile farmland.
Photos: One of the restaurants in Maillezais – The Song of
Frogs – was well named, in the evening the sound of frogs was all around; The
Maillezais church illuminated at night; Detail of carving around the doorway of
the church.
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