walker-online » Gironde http://www.walker-online.com Traveling through Europe with Chris and Harald Walker Sun, 06 Mar 2011 18:25:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Along the foggy Gironde estuary http://www.walker-online.com/2008/12/30/along-the-foggy-gironde-estuary/ http://www.walker-online.com/2008/12/30/along-the-foggy-gironde-estuary/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:04:53 +0000 Harald http://www.walker-online.com/?p=898 Winter Tour 2008 – Day 11: If it had been another sunny day we would have stayed for a second day in Mimizan-Plage, but the clouds caught up with us again, bringing some fog along with it. So we went back on the road heading north – slowly going home.  We didn’t have a tourist guide for this region and unfortunately they were not being sold anywhere. The only help we had were the pictograms of attractions like castles and viewing points on our France map. Soon after Bordeaux we left the main road and instead followed countryside roads along the Gironde estuary, which took us along countless vineyards of the Bordeaux wine and through villages like Plassac and Blaye.

Fishing hut along the foggy Gironde river View of Blaye from the citadel of Blaye Harbor of Mortagne-sur-Gironde

Unfortunately it stayed foggy all day, so we didn’t many pictures. Just before dark we reached a nice camper park next to the harbor of Mortagne-sur-Gironde.

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