{"id":749,"date":"2012-06-26T08:15:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T07:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/?p=749"},"modified":"2025-11-23T05:56:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T05:56:02","slug":"it-aint-half-hot-mum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/2012\/06\/26\/it-aint-half-hot-mum\/","title":{"rendered":"It Ain\u2019t Half Hot Mum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u2019s Monday and it\u2019s hot, very hot, with not a cloud in the sky.\u00a0We set off on our bikes\u00a0to Marseillan Plage.\u00a0\u00a0arriving around 11am, just as the shops were starting to open up and tourists were wandering along the main road in various states of undress.\u00a0 With one pair of shorts and my only skirt now too large without wearing a belt to hold them up, I bought a cotton dress for wearing in this hot weather. We looked around a small food market, but decided it was far too hot to cook anything today, so we bought the obligatory baguette (now there\u2019s a tongue twister) and went back to Eileen to finish off the pate for lunch.\u00a0 The hot wind was starting to gust about and Eileen\u2019s awning was really struggling to stay attached at times, but Rodney has fixed up some (washing line) guide ropes to help hold it in place\u2026\u2026it\u2019s working so far.<\/p>\n<p>It was so hot by mid-afternoon that we wandered over the burning sand dune to plunge ourselves in to the freezing sea.\u00a0 The only way I could get myself in, was by sitting in the water\u2019s edge and skimming big flat shells across the top of the water.\u00a0 The legs got used to the cold\u00a0while the top half was still hot, so in the end you had to lie down in the water to ease the body temperature confusion.\u00a0 Rodney did the more traditional approach of walking slowly out in to the deep sea to waist height and then ducking under.\u00a0 Back on the beach, trying to read, we found we were being sandblasted and as everything was slowly filling up with sand: our bags, books, hats and ears,\u00a0we headed back to Eileen nestled behind the dunes and sat reading in the shade of her awning.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_750\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-750\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-750\" title=\"Not a great name for a bar on the beach at Marseillan Plage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Not-a-great-name-for-a-bar-on-the-beach-at-Marseillan-Plage-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Not-a-great-name-for-a-bar-on-the-beach-at-Marseillan-Plage-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Not-a-great-name-for-a-bar-on-the-beach-at-Marseillan-Plage-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Not-a-great-name-for-a-bar-on-the-beach-at-Marseillan-Plage-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Not-a-great-name-for-a-bar-on-the-beach-at-Marseillan-Plage-96x63.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Not-a-great-name-for-a-bar-on-the-beach-at-Marseillan-Plage.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not a great name for a bar on the beach at Marseillan Plage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We tarted ourselves up, me in my new frock, and cycled back in to Marseillan Plage for dinner.\u00a0 We wandered around and then picked La Marie Louise Restaurant and\u00a0ate a\u00a0\u20ac12.90 &#8216;formula prix&#8217;\u00a0three-course meal.\u00a0 The buffet entr\u00e9e was so extensive, more than enough to be a main course and yet we\u00a0noticed that some diners got a second plate of the entr\u00e9e!\u00a0 Chicken in a creamy sauce with frites and a dessert of chocolate mousse made for the perfect slimmers meal at the end of the day\u2026\u2026!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_751\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-751\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-751\" title=\"Castles at Marseillan Plage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Castles-at-Marseillan-Plage-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Castles-at-Marseillan-Plage-600x400.jpg 600w, 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states of undress.\u00a0 With one pair of shorts and my only skirt now 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