We are on a long planned visit to Chatelaillon; this is the part of Charente Maritime that was hit by the storm last weekend. It was less strange than I expected to be here. We walked from Chatelaillon to Les Boucholeurs this morning. The path along the bottom of the cliff was closed, guarded by a police woman, so we had to go along the cliff (see picture). In Les Boucholeurs you couldn’t go further than the Marko di Mare restaurant, I think to stop looting. (Someone we know who lives there and had to leave her house, after they went back to get stuff, the house was burgled). Local people could go in. Not much real sign of damage here in Chatelaillon, for us just a drainpipe down; the main damage was, it seems, either side of us at Aytré and Les Boucholeurs.
The commune is looking to rent houses from second home owners for a year to accommodate les sinistrés.
