{"id":685,"date":"2012-06-10T10:58:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T09:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/?p=685"},"modified":"2025-11-23T05:47:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T05:47:40","slug":"a-drive-through-prunes-and-pines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/2012\/06\/10\/a-drive-through-prunes-and-pines\/","title":{"rendered":"A Drive Through Prunes and Pines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday ended badly.\u2026.\u00a0 I perfected a very creative and tricky manoeuvre of getting off the bed,\u00a0by getting my\u00a0foot caught in the top sheet and diving shoulder first to the floor, jamming myself between the wardrobe and the fridge.\u00a0 It resulted in another addition to my personal injuries list and a very sore left shoulder and arm&#8230;&#8230; idiot.<\/p>\n<p>Rodney packed up Eileen with not a lot of help from me and at 10am we set off west past Villeneuve sur Lot and on to Aiguillon.\u00a0 We drove past endless fields of prune trees, some covered in nets, some open to the sky.\u00a0 There were prune sellers and even\u00a0a couple of prune museums; I was almost tempted to visit them, but Rodney wanted to get to the coast.<\/p>\n<p>From Damazan, through Houeilles, past Mont-de-Marsan, Tartas and Dax, all we saw were pine trees.\u00a0 Hours of driving with forests of plantation pines on both sides of the road were not at all what we had expected to see.\u00a0 We stopped for a picnic, to relieve the boredom and then strove on to the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>Finally we pulled in to Camping La Civelle in Capbreton at about 5pm.\u00a0 To stretch our legs, we walked the 1.2km over to the sand dunes and stood there in the fierce wind gazing out at the stormy dark ocean.\u00a0 It was very bracing, but lovely to see the sea again.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_686\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-686\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-686\" title=\"View north from the beach at Capbreton\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/View-north-from-the-beach-at-Capbreton-600x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/View-north-from-the-beach-at-Capbreton-600x390.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/View-north-from-the-beach-at-Capbreton-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/View-north-from-the-beach-at-Capbreton-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/View-north-from-the-beach-at-Capbreton-96x62.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/View-north-from-the-beach-at-Capbreton.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View north from the beach at Capbreton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve closed our long day with a long game of scrabble which resulted in a 3 point win over Rodney.<\/p>\n<p>Laura 2\u00a0 Rodney 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday ended badly.\u2026.\u00a0 I perfected a very creative and tricky manoeuvre of getting off the bed,\u00a0by getting my\u00a0foot caught in the top sheet and diving shoulder first to the floor, jamming myself between the wardrobe and the fridge.\u00a0 It resulted in another addition to my personal injuries list and a very sore left shoulder and 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