Day 15

Monday 1 June 2009

We woke and Alex came in to us asking for a drink. He helped himself to some water, came over to snuggle on Dave and promptly threw up! Eugh! What made it worse was Dave tried to put his hands over Alex's mouth and it sprayed out through his fingers to go everywhere! Thankfully it was only the water that came up so it didn't smell! Phew. My first job of the day was to wash Dave's sleeping bag! As I washed it I got chatting to a couple of dutch ladies who helped me wring it out. There are a couple of observations to make at this point. Firstly the fact that campers in general are a very friendly sociable and helpful bunch. We have been given chocolate for the kids in Germany, lent a strap to stop us blowing away in France and met all sorts of lovely people in every site we have been on. The second observation is about this particular capsite. We could be in Holland rather than the south of France. 90% of the people on the site here are Dutch and this is obviously the norm as the receptionist is Dutch too and prefered to speak to me in English rather than French! Because Alex had been ill we decided to spend the day relaxing and had fun swimming, sunbathing and reading. The pool with the hills in the distance. As you can see we had the pool to ourselves most of the time.We had planned to do some shopping today but it is a Bank Holiday so no shops are open so we ate at the restaurant on the campsite which was very nice. I will leave you with a picture of a fruit that is growing on a tree next to our caravan. We didn't know what it was but the couple in the caravan next to ours have a tree book and were able to identify it. 2 clues... first it tastes delicious and secondly there is a childrens rhyme about it!!