I’ve just had to stand under a cold shower to cool down enough to concentrate on tapping out today’s blog. For those of you wearing woolly jumpers as you read this, sorry!
We set off on our bikes at 10am this morning; we really should have started earlier, when the day was cooler. We decided to have a look at Agde, only 7kms back east along the coast and apparently an interesting place, ‘the crown jewel of the seaside resorts of the Mediterranean’. We passed Marseillan Plage and stayed on the cycle track. As we have discovered all over France, the signposts often disappear and you’re then on your own to decide which way to go. Crossing the Canal du Midi we realised that we might be heading the wrong way, but what did that matter…. Then we found a really helpful signpost……
We had realised by now that we wouldn’t be going to Agde, but would probably be heading in to Marseillan, but this signpost really didn’t help us. We opted for the straight on direction to stay closer to the water and after 6.5 kms, we did find ourselves in the unexpectedly lovely town of Marseillan.
The Port area was really nice and we had a chat with a couple from Hull, England who have cruised their boat across the English Channel to Le Havre, then down the Seine, through the Loire and followed the canals all the way to the Mediterranean. They left England in May last year! It made our trip seem rather simple in comparison. Next stop was the now necessary cold drink in a café by the water and then we wandered along to the market and the main town.
We ate a tuna quiche and more cold drinks in a park and then decided that we really should get back to the beach area to buy some supplies and get out of the heat, it was now 34˚C and there was no shade anywhere.
When we got back to Marseillan Plage all the shops were of closed (why did we not expect that?), but we managed to find a tiny shop to get some milk and fruit to see us through to tomorrow. Eating out again tonight seems like a good option, me thinks.
