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Zagan the motorhome has stayed put for another night at the aire in Marseillan Plage (N43.31968, E3.54758<\/a>), on the French Mediterranean coast. After a quick look around yesterday we decided to splash out another \u20ac6 to stay, but of course we’ll be leaving tomorrow when the price doubles to \u20ac12 a night as we enter peak season in France.<\/p>\n

\"Marseillan

Even the road, train line and screams from the fun fair behind us didn’t keep us awake!<\/p><\/div>\n

So why did we chose to stay and why was there a queue to get into the motorhome aire? Well the answer to the second question is a fault with the entrance machine which thought the aire was full, but got put right when someone tracked down the mayor. The answer to the first one, we found the place to be good fun. If we were to write out a list of things we were looking for at that moment from an overnight stop it would have been things to see, near the sea and walking distance to somewhere to eat out.\u00a0Marseillan Plage ticked all those boxes and best of all, it was fun.<\/p>\n

\"Marseillan<\/p>\n

\"\"

Interesting choice of shop dummies!<\/p><\/div>\n

We did our sightseeing in several different ways. Jay headed off on this bike to explore the town of\u00a0Marseillan, I jogged along the coast to see what is reputed to be one of the best beaches in France, and together we strolled around the seaside town.<\/p>\n

\"Marseillan<\/p>\n

At its core the town was a few pedestrianised streets with a jumble of restaurants, bars, souvenir shops, beach wear shops and everything else you come to expect from a resort. Step outside of that by a few metres and you could see recent history around you.<\/p>\n

\"Marseillan

Bunny ears behind the head is still funny today<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Canal

The Canal du Midi, which enables water traffic to travel across France from the Atlantic to the Med, completes its path nearby<\/p><\/div>\n

The town is celebrating 70 years since it was formed, a patch of land bought to create a holiday resort by the sea a few kilometres away from the old town of Marseillan. Around the town posters showed how it was over the decades and looking at the architecture away from the centre, not much has changed since it was first built.<\/p>\n

\"Marseillan

Camping in France the 1960’s – not a motorhome to be seen!<\/p><\/div>\n

We had a great couple of days wandering around, sniffing the rotisserie chicken stalls, eyeing up the ice cream stalls (\u20ac2.50 for one boule)<\/em> and deciding where to eat out. Jay fancied the French favourite of moule frites<\/em>, and the place right by the aire looked like the best spot in town. It was packed on Thursday night when we walked past, so we starved ourselves on Friday and got in there early. The reason it was packed, possibly because it was all you can eat moule!<\/em> I opted for a goat’s cheese and honey pizza, which was huge and of course I shared it couple of slices with Jay.<\/p>\n

\"\" \"Marseillan<\/p>\n

We did wonder why we liked this place so much, I can only think it was because it had a certain\u00a0je n’est ce quoi<\/em>. Nearly everyone here was French (although we did bump into Shaun from Ireland and were a tad embarrassed when he asked to have a selfie with us, so he could show his wife he’d met us two muppets) everything is geared up for the French. The British ‘kiss me quick’ hats were replaced with stylish chappeau<\/em> and even the beachwear was straight from the catwalk, and unlike the costas in Spain where it’s fish and chips and a euro a pint, here it was French classics like gallette<\/em> and crepes<\/em> and \u20ac5 a pint. Needless to say we drank table wine when we were out and I think Jay enjoyed his 22c (19p) cans of Lidl larger from Spain all the more after seeing the prices here.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"Marseillan

Shame we missed the boat jousting<\/p><\/div>\n

Anyway, we’ve had a great time and also found a few interesting signs dotted around the place – so I’ll leave you with those. Have a great weekend!<\/p>\n

Ju x<\/p>\n

\"Marseillan

So glad they are temporarily embarrassed by their pipeline – so they should!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Marseillan

Along with the usual no dogs on the beach signs, there was this one – no whistling?<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Marseillan

You might not be able to make out the twenty or so people fishing on the rocks<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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