A day on the campsite: La Couronne

Last week we finally managed to get tickets for the Rugby World Cup quarter finals, to see Wales versus Argentina in Marseille tomorrow. It took a lot of perseverance over a couple of weeks, checking for tickets either newly released or being resold. Then, while John was watching one of the final group games in the campsite bar last week, more tickets kept coming online as teams were knocked out of the event and people wanted to offload their tickets. I kept refreshing the screen, getting excited as tickets became available, then disappointed when someone beat me to them. Finally, when I’d almost given up, I had two tickets in my basket! John was a a happy boy!

We’re now on a campsite in La Couronne. From here, after a bike ride to the station, we can catch the train into Marseille. It’ll be a long day, but we’re looking forward to it.

As we’ve been very active recently, making most of the places we’re visiting, and the good weather, we decided to potter around the campsite and relax today. It’s a bit cooler so we decided to get the new resistance bands out. We’ve been carrying them around unopened for 6 weeks, so we thought we’d better use them! Then John went for a 40 minute run along the coast to the lighthouse, while I did some yoga. We’ve also played boules for the first time this trip!

We had lunch at the campsite restaurant because we’re both sick of bread and cheese… I never thought I’d say that! Afterwards, I got my jigsaw out… something else bought especially for the holiday. As it’s autumn, I was expecting a few rainy days, but we’ve only had two so far, and one of those was when we saw Wales versus Portugal in Nice! Now we’re preparing lunch and getting ready for tomorrow. I hope Wales win 🤞🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿