"We then went South and were bombed wherever we stopped. Tours is flat, Poitiers not so bad. We stayed two nights at Angouleme and were heavily bombed, never went to bed. The Germans took it soon after we left next day, We got to Bor-deux, but the last boat had left. They said there were nearly 10,000 cars in the town—you could not move and I had only 10 litres of essence left. Luckily the Consulate had some and gave us enough to go to Biarritz. There was still no boat and we could not go in—even over a shop—so we went on 5 kils. to the other side of St. Jean de Lux. There we found a little golf hotel—a sweet place called Chantaco—and there was T. E. and his whole family, the Baroness G. de R. and her sister Mrs. S. all waiting for visas to go into Spain! Two days later we heard there was a boat (Dutch). Ye Gods, it was built to hold 180 and we were 2,600 on board.
When we got out of the river at Bayonne they said, We presume you all have food for two or three days 441 No one had anything but a few biscuits, C. and I lived on
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