You’d think you were stranded in an African desert, but the Dune du Pilat (Dune of Pilat) has a grandeur all its own.  All 60,000,000 m³ of it are sandwiched between the aquamarine waters of the Atlantic and the emerald Landes forest, making it quite unlike any other ‘desert’ oasis on our lovely planet. Mainly, because it’s in…