Tuesday 17th June Piriac to Guidels plage via Locmaraquer, Quiberon and Lorient

We leave Piriac and get a zoom on, whilst we have made up some time we are still very far from our ultimate destination and we need to get some miles under our belt. We have a master plan, but as ever the fates intervene and our master plan goes out of the window. The aire at Locmariquer is packed (awnings down selfish people, down!!), Quiberon is not viable, the weather has closed in and it’s blowing a gale – not a time to be stuck on a tiny sliver of a peninsula – on and on we drive. We come up with a few back up plans, but it’s basically drive until you’re happy to stop. We pass place after place, god bless autoroute and our last (again!) option turns out to be the best. We arrive at Guidels plage at an aire behind the sailing school and there is not only a space, but the aire is PERFECT!! Miles of blinding sand (tide’s out), bar, shops, wifi and loos all just there. It’s ideal and it totally beats all the places we had earmarked.

We zoom the dogs, Noush gets in the sea in her underwear, breasts flying and no one to see or care, Valerie is nestled cosy and safe in the dunes and we lack for nothing. Why isn’t anyone else here?

There is a small incident involving van rage which sums up the attitude of some weird campers; there’s a late arrival and an aire mayor turfs someone off their pitch to make way for a bigger van, the police turn up and it looks like it could get ugly, why? If everyone just shunted down a bit you could fit loads more, but no, people have to make a scene. Fortunately it all ends happily – but as a note to other campers, get here early afternoon to avoid the fuss.