After we dragged ourselves away from a great few days in Port Joinville, we renegotiated the lobster pots and set off back north to Ile de Noirmoutier - close enough to the coast to be joined by a bridge. We had been told that the marina a L'Herbaudier got very busy but actually we were shown straight to a berth...in fact its been much quieter all round than we'd expected for July.
This is another very flat island so, having been encouraged by our success in Yeu, we hired the bikes for 2 days this time! The town of Noirmoutier is very pretty with a big chateau which we didn't have time to visit on this occasion. The main occupation - apart from tourism - seems to be the salt flats covering much of the island, it certainly made for easy cycling! This time however there was more of a breeze blowing so skipper found it rather harder work! Our tour took us to a beautiful beach which, when we arrived, was completely deserted - again not what we'd expected at the height of their tourist season.
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