One day in August, the lover and I realized that we had a week's vacation together, WITHOUT CHILDREN. Who are the planning kings?
We said Rome, Porto, Barcelona. The Ministry of Finance voted Camping. I had a tent, he had mattresses, we had duvets. Never say fountain.
Still, I was far from resigning myself to camping with slides in it. So I thought about a place that would make camping Way of life.
Like Woodstock Or the island of Aix which is usually visited in one day by taking the ferry from the island of Ré or Oléron.
We are rebels, we took it from Rochefort, which we visited while waiting for the boat since the schedules depend on the tide.
20 minutes later, the lady of the campsite offered us a place in the shade in front of the toilets... It's impossible
That's how we ended up without a shadow hair in the heat of the heat but at the foot of the lighthouse with a 360° view of the harbour, the beach, Fort Boyard (I'm so sad not to have recorded my snapshot showing this). A sunset paradise.
Apart from that, what to do on the island of Aix when the tent is a sauna from 8am onwards?
We rented bicycles from the rental company in front of the bakery, which is in partnership with the campsite (my God, I wrote this sentence). And we appropriated the island which became our island from the start of the last ferry.
There are three museums on the island. The mother-of-pearl museum, the African Museum, and the Napoleon museum that we visited the morning it rained. I liked the intimate angle because it was there that a fallen Napoleon came to Saint Helena three days before his exile (he had a fondness for the islands, didn't he? Huhu). Napoleon knew Aix well that he had made multi fortification to protect (poorly) his arsenal in Rochefort.
But I got lost, we'll miss the sunset...
Otherwise, my favourite part was lunch when we went to eat oysters (or shrimps) at Francky's with vegetables cooked on the plancha and his white wine that spits a little bit.
Be careful, on the island of Aix, there is little shade. We managed to find coves where to take a quiet nap in the north of the island. But the seaside is steep (and therefore dangerous with rocks).
On the big beaches to the west of the island it is sun at will. We enjoyed being childless so much that we heard so much that they were thirsty, tired of cycling, and the sand was too hot. I strongly advise against the island of Aix with young children. Especially in the middle of a heat wave.
NB: once at home, we realized that half of the village was on the island of Aix (in real houses) for a wedding. And we understood why our young neighbors woke us up at two o' cloc.There is a dancing bar that closes at two o' clock and is I DON' T KNOW OR. But I would have liked to know that because we were going to go to bed after sunset like punks but not too much.
PS: a word about the campsite which is in the fort just after the port (there is another fort in the North, the fort Lériot which I didn't visit either. We were overwhelmed.). It is a municipal campsite with the minimum at an unbeatable price of 20€ per night. The crossing costs 35€ per person. Bike rental for two and two days 27€.