Day 26 – Valras-Plage

So tomorrow came and I was busy updating the blog by the time checkout passed, so I will go tomorrow to Narbonne. I am quite happy at the moment. Despite having little in common with anyone here, today it doesn’t seem to bother me. It is very hot and sunny, I have a shady spot (always my top priority) and it gives me a chance to catch up on some things. I’m actually quite enjoying it here. I might even have a dip in the sea later. I‘m keeping the blog up to date in the hope that eventually I’ll be able to upload it.

I also have a mild case of WIND. This is a similar condition to VIND only is caused by wine instead of vodka. Nothing to do with sausage.

Could be home earlier than expected

I’m beginning to wonder whether this trip is going to work on two levels. The bad news from the agency was that despite promising to rent out my house the day after I left, they did sod all with it for 3 weeks, and then presented me with a list of things they wanted to change. So it’s costing me a lot to be here and when the high reason starts imminently the prices will increase. The other thing is the terrible internet. It’s simply impossible to do my work with it like this at the moment, plus I have only 30 days to use all the internet I paid for now that I activated my second lot. I could be coming home early!

Today I saw one of the alien super-bugs squashed on the pavement. No antenna was in evidence. In fact while I was writing this a few moments ago in the dark one almost flew straight into me. Gave me a hell of a fright. My face must have been lit up quite well by the laptop screen. Flying around at high speed in the dark is all very well provided you can see in the dark. X-ray vision my A*se!

The beach

I went to the beach this afternoon. It reminds me very much of studland beach, wrinkly old tits and all. It’s a wide sandy beach with sand dunes at one end. Being a couple of kilometres from the town centre it’s not very busy on the beach; just the few people from the various campsites who made it this far. Not a single person in the sea!!!? Not one, as far as the eye can see! Jelly fish? Rip tides? Sharks? All of these I have encountered on my travels but within half an hour I was in. No tides, no jellyfish, and all my limbs still appeared intact. It was quite cold which was a surprise. It doesn’t take long to dry off though. I get terribly bored on the beach, I spent half an hour in the sea and half an hour drying off then headed back to camp. I noticed with amusement as I left, the sea now had quite a few people in it... was it people, or was it sheep? Very difficult to tell sometimes.

I lost one of my cups today which is a real pain. I only had 2. Now cups feature very highly on the priorities thing. I may be able to fashion a new one out of a bit of my old boot. In fact I could have a matching pair.

I discovered that I can get the internet working here after 11 at night and before 8 in the morning. Any other time the puny network is so congested you can’t even open a single page without being disconnected. If things are better tomorrow in Narbonne I’ll stop there for a week to get some work done.