An amazing lightning display all around the lake last night which Adrian and I sat and watched for a while. No rain or thunder though and a very comfortable nights sleep.
What a lovely relaxing day we have had today. The weather came up trumps and has been sunny with white whispy clouds all day. After a slow start, we had a lazy breakfast of cereal, tea, croissants - the kids and Adrian had pain au raisin - a real luxury! We then headed to the beach for the day. I make it sound like its a long way away, but in fact it is the sites own beach and is about 100m from the tent. We spent the day sunbathing broken up by swimming in the warm, shallow, freshwater lake. The children played on the slides, in the play ground and dug sand pits. Hannah spent most of the day in the water trying to catch and touch the fish, unsuccessfully. She also enjoyed swimming out to and jumping off the diving platform. The twins had a go too, but needed my help to get back into the shallower water afterwards. For anyone looking for a child friendly site in France you could do no better than by this lake - it has many advantages over the strong Atlantic currents you find on the coast.
Towards the end of the afternoon Adrian and I had a sneaky drink in the bar whilst still being able to see the children - another plus point - never far from the water. We had showers and compared sunburn :-( We have been very diligent using sun cream on everyone all holiday, but today we got the timing all wrong and did a rush job. Hopefully having smothered ourselves in aloe vera after showers, the red shoulders will have died down by tomorrow morning.
We are currently sitting on the picnic mat chilling and waiting for the rotisserie chicken we have ordered for tea to finish cooking. We have salad to go with it - yum! And makes a change from pasta!
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