We’ve been to Carnac twice before, but this is the first time we have had sunny weather.
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Mont Saint-Michel and Saint-Malo
Well, they have certainly done a lot of work here in the last four years. They’ve put in a new road which is open to the sea underneath, and taken out all the old car parks near the Mont. There is a huge new car park and a shuttle bus service (you can walk if you want – we did – 45 minutes each way) and the shuttle buses are push-me-pull-you so they don’t need to turn round at the end of the trip.
Pressing On Through France
After our first night back in France, spent in a hypermarket car park on the outskirts of Caen, we decided to have another visit to Le Mont St-Michel, just to see if the weather held up this time. It did, and we spent a night there in the car park out by the causeway, with a few dozen other campervans.
Loire Valley
We went to Chenonceau today – one of the jewels of the Loire Valley! This is what it looked like:-
I don’t think even my Photoshop skills can do a lot with it
Belle Ile and Beyond
We took our trip to Belle Ile and had a coach tour – taking the van would have been VERY expensive. We had a good run around the island; above is Les Aiguilles de Port Coton.
At last, a blog post…..
The weather has mostly been very good, just a couple of days of rain so far. It’s a good excuse to sit in the van and do nothing!
We have been testing out the under 3 Euro wines, (reds) and have to say they are very drinkable, much better than the French wines we got for 6 Pounds from Morrisons! We have decided to stock up before we leave France, with enough to last the rest of our trip.
The French seem to be not very adventurous eaters, there isn’t anything like the selection in their supermarkets that we have in UK and NZ. They just seem to eat French food.
We have been getting into the crepes and galettes. I have bought a cook book so that when I get home, I can make some. We like the one with cheese, ham and fried egg!
I’m not that keen on the unisex toilets and showers you get on a lot of camp sites, and Colin thinks the urinals, or pissoirs as they call them, were designed by exhibitionist men or voyeuristic women. It’s very odd to be walking along and just glance around, and there’s some man….
There are not a lot of medium sized dogs here. There are lots of very small ones, often kept in pairs, and a few very large hairy ones. Not many labs, lots of poodles.
Catching Up
We’ve moved around a bit since our last post, so this is an update on where we’ve been.
The first pic is the old walled city of Saint-Malo, once a haunt of corsairs (pirates or privateers, depending on whether there was a war on at the time), from the beach at low tide.
Rennes
Today we visited Rennes. Not particularly willingly, but our main lens decided to break down yesterday, so we had to get another. None here in St Malo. We phoned St Helier, Jersey, thinking we could go over on the ferry, but they didn’t have one, So, we went to Rennes, which according to our guide book is a nightmare for driving and parking. We weren’t keen, but needs must. After a few false starts, we found a really easy parking space, very close to a shop which turned out to have an English speaking salesman who had spent time in Scotland, and a second hand lens! So we had a walk around Rennes to test it. A seagull decided to poop on me – that’s supposed to be lucky, isn’t it? We are now back at St Malo and the weather is finally starting to look a little better.