No floods for us, just floods of French tears!

We believe some of our friends and family have been concerned by press reports at home of the terrible flooding in parts of southern France earlier this week. Although we did experience mixed weather, including black skies, heavy rain and even some cloudbursts, we are far to the west of where the real problems were, and we have no intention of travelling that far east. So, all is well and we are approaching the end of our week at the first resort, Serignan Plage. There may be some readers who are not aware that we will be visiting Naturist resorts in the main, a lifestyle we adopted some four years ago when we first visited France in the summer. I do not intend publishing any naturism photos which will be a great relief to most, but I cannot help but refer to it, so if this is a problem, switch off now! No, seriously, this is very common on the continent with particularly the French, Germans and Dutch being very keen on this very relaxing and simple approach to holidays! There are naturist sites of all types all over France and we will experience sites of all types and sizes during our time here. So far this week, despite mixed weather, we have been in the spa pool area twice, loving the bubbly spa bath and massage walk (!), taken our new windbreak down to the beach and paddled in the Med, watched some football, including France losing – that should put the dampers on the mood round here – and had a lovely third wedding anniversary meal in the campsite restaurant. Yesterday (Thursday) we took our new bikes out for their first big trip – a two hour round trip into the nearby town of Serignan. The little town was delightful with a very typical French central square covered in restaurant tables and chairs. We picked up some delicious local vegetables and fruit on our ride back. It is 35 years since either of us rode a bike for any distance - we limped back exhausted with our knees shouting in complaint! We still managed to prepare a superb BBQ dinner before watching the France vs Mexico match on our TV in the van. Thank goodness we did not join the droves of French in the cafe TV room as originally intended – it would have been most depressing! On Saturday we move on to Cap d’Agde just up the coast to a much bigger more commercial site. Should be interesting!