Buzzing

Sully Sur Loire. As the name suggests, it is on the bank of the Loire. Prime winemaking and Chateau building country. In fact there is one within view of the campsite. 

Around here the majority of the population live in Chateaux, have several acres of vineyard and go by the name Compte. The closest we have to aristocracy in the Windy gang is Compte Robin Mann in his mobile chateau Gilbert. 

Although the Justices do have a limousine and their chauffeur lives in servants quarters. 

This is our penultimate stop on this year's Windy journey and the weather is already becoming a lot more British. Drizzle and cooler temperatures acting as a taster for our return to reality. We are north of the Loire, which is virtually Blighty isn't it ?

Team Midlife Crisis and Team Mini have headed for the bright lights of a night in Gay Paris, skipping Sully Sur Loire entirely. We shall see them at the next stop. 

As for Team Jezebel (and the Little Green Bus and Team Flo), our first stop of the day heading north from Montpon was the town of Oradour. A place with a fairly gruesome history. In 1944, almost the entire village of 630 men, women and children were rounded up by the Nazis and slaughtered. The village was burnt. 

The village has been left as a memorial to the dead and to what man is capable of doing to his fellow man. 

Well, say this our first stop. Not technically true I guess. We had a mechanical failure in Jezebel, requiring some remedial work and ingenuity. The accelerator cable snapped. It's now held together with an electrical connector. 

Does the job ok. Hopefully it will get us home. 

Sully was also the last port of call for Team Haggis, Joel and Fraser. They have a ferry to catch from Amsterdam. I heard them leaving at around 5.30am. Should give them plenty of time to shop for local Amsterdam produce on their way through, assuming they need Edam cheese, clogs, unusual tobacco based products or latex. See you chaps, it's been a blast. 

So, a quiet night (apart from Team 9 and their mobile 80s disco and the Wales v Belgium match on my phone) sat around smoky fires to keep the mosquitos at bay, wine and rum the favoured tipples. Compte Robin and I, plotting ideas for an event in Blighty and planning the next stop on Le Tour De Windy. Epernay, in the heart of the Champagne Region. Well, where else could you finish a wine tour ?