Dont go to Arcachon
Because it’s not always easy to get away as a family in the summer - what with gite handovers, pool cleaning, grass cutting and so on - Mrs B and the girls have had the bright idea that each year they will go away for a week and leave me at home to look after things.
Sounds like a good idea? They went last year and seemed to enjoy themselves without me, I can’t imagine how. They are doing the same again this year.
So I’m going to let you in on a secret. Arcachon is a town west of Bordeaux on the coast that they stayed at last year, and of all the places they could have gone this year, of the many places we have visited in France, it is to Arcachon that they are returning this year.
The town is more popular with French people than with overseas visitors, and many people who work and live in Bordeaux and the south-west of France have second homes and apartments there. It is easy to get to, not over-developed by tourism, and has an interesting town to explore as well. Beaches are close to hand, as is the biggest sand dune in Europe (110 metres high).
Now I’m just relating what I’ve been told but seems to me like you should cancel the sunny Med this year, forget about glitzy and busy Biarritz further to the south, get a flight to Bordeaux and try Arcachon instead.
But apparently I’m wrong. Mrs B says she doesn’t want to share the town with you lot, so has asked me to tell you all not to go to Arcachon. Ever.
And if you do go, and you happen upon a single mum and a couple of stroppy teenage girls spending too much in the boutiques and cafes when you’re there, don’t under any circumstances tell them that you’re there because I suggested it.
