France 2010 - Aquarium

After our adventure down the ugly valley we thought we had better do something a little tamer...

The dried river bed that flows out onto the beach.

So we drove back to Banyuls, parked the car in the dry river bed and went for an ice cream.  One thing I do love about France is that, like the Italians, they love ice cream.  We went in to the shop and were faced with a huge choice of flavours.  Pug had one scoop of Peach and one of Melon. Rhi had two scoops of Smartie, Dyl had which ever was the most colourful and I had a scoop of coffee and Crème Brulee.  They were gorgeous, delicious and refreshing in the heat of the midday sun.

We sat on a promenade area on a stone bench under the shade of a tree looking out to the see and savoured our ice creams.  We walked along to the Oceanic University where the Aquarium was.  It was ok.  As aquariums go it was the usual room lined on either side with fish tanks containing some weird and wonderful species from sea.  The actual fish etc were really good to see and an amazing selection.  That took about half an hour to go round and look at the various fish and then when we left we took a look at the stuffed sea birds that they had as well.  Nice!

Not the most exciting afternoon but compared to our morning of excitement that was a good thing.  It was so hot on our way back to the car we stopped for a swim in the sea.  It was lovely and refreshing.

I was then dropped back at the villa for some more relaxation and pool time while Pug and the kids went to Argeles for a look around.