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Very envious but in truth half a dozen just whets my appetite ;-)
What of last summer's forest fires? Is the area recovering? I guess it will take time? My nephew nearly had to call off his wedding as the fires reached just outside Arcachon. The brunch was due to be at the foot of the Dune du...
I remember the 'bac' between Royan and Pointe de Grave and Soulac (no longer very much)-sur-Mer. Wasn't the whole village relocated a few kilometres inland? The tracks you describe are familiar but I have no recollection of Pin Sec or Hourtin Plage. A lot of those seaside resorts had that...
I walked this route in 2006 with my father. There were very few waymarks and we mostly just guessed our way from Soulac-sur-Mer down to Bayonne. We figured that in mediaeval times pilgrims would have walked from church spire to church spire - it is very flat - but that meant going along main...
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