Ile de Oleron

We chose to stay on the Ile de Oleron for the weekend and made for the camping cheque site (La Bande) via the coast road thru tiny villages and ports. The ports are now mostly for pleasure use and each one had a very good motorhome aire along side its small marina. Noted for future journeys! Arrived at site during lunch hour so went off for a snack and had a most interesting lunch experience. The nearby oyster and mussel 'producture' has a small restaurant cooking mussles the 'aglade' style. This involves arranging lots of mussels on a square plank covered in foil then covering the mussels with pine needles and twigs. The whole lot is then set on fire (with blow lamp!) and when it goes out the mussels are cooked. We had to try these of course with some frites and wine. Very nice but blew the Sunday lunch budget (maybe). Eventually returned to the site and found a nice pitch with sun and shade for the weekend. It has free wifi and I am sitting writing this in the warm sunshine with a glass of wine. Excellent pool with warm water, so that's tomorrow taken care of as well.