France - Poitou-Charentes - 17 Charente-Maritime - Oléron

Oléron island (Charente-Maritime 17)

Sent by Isabelle from Cantal, France.

Île d'Oléron (pronounced: [il doleʁɔ̃]) is an island off the Atlantic coast of France (due west of Rochefort), on the southern side of the Pertuis d'Antioche strait.

It is the second largest French island after Corsica (not counting French overseas collectivities). (read further)

France - Poitou-Charentes - 16 Charente - Confolens

View of vrious places in Confolens in France.

Sent by Didier from Montpellier, France.

This is from Wikipedia : Confolens (Occitan: Cofolents) is a town in south-western France. It is one of the two sous-prefecture of the Charente département . Confolens is the administrative center of a largely rural district, which has seen the development of tourism in recent years.