The Gironde Estuary

The Gironde Estuary area is where the rivers Dordogne and Garonne flow together and out to sea.  We travelled next to La Rochelle, a busy city, with lots of shops and a port area, only stayed a couple of hours as we wanted to travel to the coast. 



Si was not so impressed with La Rochelle - he thought we were being followed by muggers

We have seen  many beautiful Chateau's along the way

 We moved on down to Mortagne sur Gironde just south of Royan and found a beautiful harbour, suggested in the book of Aires that it would get very busy very quickly which it did. The harbour is full of ducks, there are signs saying that the ducks have right of way around the harbour area.  We cycled up to the view point and around the area

Chilling out in the RV at Mortagne sur mer



View point - on a clear day you can see for miles over the Estuary




"Si won't mind if you have his breakfast"

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Moving on down the estuary we followed the scenic route through small villages and fields of vineyards, stopping in Bayle at the Citadel.


Oh look a different t-shirt



At the Citadel

French roads are very quiet

We stopped overnight in a town call Cadillac, a pretty walled town by the river on the way further into the Bordeaux region.





Si looking at where his next meal might come from! - in Cadillac