Bob Marley turns up on a French beach / myLot

Rockingham, Australia

August 3, 2017 1:28am CST

One of our stops in France while travelling in our motor-home was at the Le Gurp Municipal Camping site in Gironde. Municipal sites are usually small and relatively cheap but there are 1000 sites here and it must be a great little earner for the local authority. It faces the Atlantic Ocean and when we walked down to the beach we were surprised to see old wartime bunkers along the coast. None seemed to be up the right way but there was some fantastic paintings on them. Apparently there are many bunkers and other wartime structures along the coast in the area. Coming from Australia it came as a bit of a shock to see these.

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John Roberts

@JohnRoberts (109841)

• Los Angeles, California

3 Aug 17

The only wartime bunker I saw in France were those at Normandy.

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Scott Ganschow

@teamfreak16 (43640)

• Denver, Colorado

3 Aug 17

That's sweet. Love Bob Marley.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (382326)

• Rockingham, Australia

3 Aug 17

Here's another that is well done but I don't think he is a singer.

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Scott Ganschow

@teamfreak16 (43640)

• Denver, Colorado

3 Aug 17

@JudyEv - I don't recognize him.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (382326)

• Rockingham, Australia

3 Aug 17

@teamfreak16 Me either but it's well done. I should have cropped the photo to show it better.

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Silvermist

@silvermist (19701)

• India

3 Aug 17

@JudyEv I have not been regular in visiting mylot these days.I see that this is your discussion no 899.The paintings give those bunkers a new look for sure.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (382326)

• Rockingham, Australia

3 Aug 17

I've just posted another and that is 900! Thanks for letting me know. I knew I was getting close but didn't realise I was quite so close - or that I'd reached 900.

Marie

@Tampa_girl7 (54716)

• United States

3 Aug 17

It really provides nice decor to the beach.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (382326)

• Rockingham, Australia

3 Aug 17

I prefer them painted to just sitting there are grey concrete blocks.

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (14786)

• Ireland

3 Aug 17

@judyev You would think that 70 years remembering might be enough and that they could remove the unsightly vestiges of war. We do plenty of other remembering.so the horrors won't be forgotten.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (382326)

• Rockingham, Australia

3 Aug 17

I guess it would be a huge task to remove them - and they do provide good shade for beach-goers. They are quite large concrete creations and would take a bit of shifting I think.

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