Our Active Rest Day

We ended our last post telling you that we were spending the night at a campsite that was part of a leisure complex. It turned out to be quite a complex, with every activity from archery and horse riding to swimming and crazy golf. This was great for us, as we were in fact spending 2 nights at this site, as we were about to have our second rest day.

We were very happy as there was loads for us to do. As well as the camp site activities, we could walk along the river into the French market town of Contamines. We did this in the morning, after a lie in and leisurely breakfast. As a bonus, it was market day, so we were able to explore lots of fascinating French market stalls who liked the look of us bears, and offered us lots of tastes of olives, cheese and saucisson. We were very happy to accept and to tell them how they tasted to an English bear's palate.

In fact we were so relaxed and had such a fine time, that we forgot to take any photographs, which wasn't good news for our blog. It did show that we were taking our day off very seriously though.

All is not lost though, we did remember a photo or 2 in the afternoon, when we went to the rock climbing area, a short walk from the campsite.

To start off, we made ourselves comfortable in the sun and watched our 2 leaders Simon and Ben showing us how it is done.

It was a big face, which is why Ben looks so small. Both chaps are good climbers though and made it look easy, so easy in fact that we were inspired to have a go ourselves. Regular readers will know that Yorkie and I are keen (and competitive) climbers, but Gio is more of a novice. We therefore tackled a smaller and easier face and put Gio in between us.

Gio did very well, but when we suggested moving onto something bigger, he developed an urge to play crazy golf and, correctly pointed out, that if we didn't do it now, we would run out of time. And so, we went off to play crazy golf, and we were very glad we did, as it was a bigger and more interesting course than we tend to get in England.

We dined in the campsite restaurant that evening. and had pork cheeks again (yum), with berries which turned the meat a very interesting purple colour. It was another great meal though and, after it, we knew we'd be ready for more walking the next day.  

Lots of love, George, Yorkie and Gio xxx