The Camargue
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The Camarge
The Camargue
I had decided to write a long peice on the Camargue. However the shortened version is this. It is famous for flamingos, bulls and wild horses. We saw all three in abundance and ended up in a sea side town called St Maries sur la mer.
Here one company seems to own both campsites and has a monopoly. As a result their staff do not need to be polite or even pleasant. For the most expensive night yet (19E) we had a small patch of sand within 50m of the local Euro-trash disco. To be fair the disco met an abrupt end at midnight when the bouncers waded in.
If you are looking for sun sand and want to pretend to be a bull rancher (for a price), if you want to pay well over the odds for your food and to be treated like scum then St Maries sur [...]

