La Venise Verte

       

Stumbled upon a part of France we've sped past many times, the Marais Poitevin - France's second largest wetland area after the Carmargue - crisscrossed with canals and cycle paths.  Ideal for the unfit like me and a wildlife paradise.  We've seen kingfishers, water vole, pied wagtails and a canoeist camper saw coypu.  The yellow irises are stupendous as are the pale blue ones, which seem most popular in people's gardens.

Coulon is the centre of the smaller area of La Venise Verte, and where we stayed 4 days thanks to a recommendation by Gary, a Netherstreet neighbour's son in law.  Many thanks Gary, and to you and Jane for a lovely lunch on Sat, it was great to meet you.

Also a big thank you to Gina and Rob who we'd not seen for 20 years but it felt like only last month. It was great to see you and a bit of your part of rural France.

Rain set in for a couple of days, it's warm but obviously time to move on..

PS - only just learnt to post photos so using this post as a bit of a catch up.  You can see the phantasmagorical rock formations on the pink granite coast, the coastline just down from our campsite on the Golfe de Morbihan and the island we went to on our boat trip mentioned in my first post.