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Had an interesting night’s sleep a hundred yards from the main road in a Premier Classe Hotel, rumoured to be an ex prison, (might need to re-think the budget hotels!) but it was warm and dry and had secure parking and WiFi. Decided to forego the vending machine breakfast and head off to the next stop on the road.
We decided not to do Bayeux as the museum wouldn’t be open on a Bank Holiday (it was the Bank Holiday for Pentecost in France) but headed instead for Mont-St-Michel to compare it to the Cornish equivalent. It seemed to be almost directly on our route but was actually an hour’s detour once we got off the main road onto minor country roads.
This gave us chance to test the Porsche handling and, I am glad to say, it sticks to the road quite well. Good job I got all the broken bits stuck back on before we set off otherwise we could have decorated some of the fields more than we had planned.
The weather was kinder to us driving today and this meant we made Mont-St-Michel by about 0930 and parked up to take a look. The
Lunch at Ker Rouz
Including Oeufs au Cidre Breton parking attendant was impressed with the car but not by my parking so we had to move it about 1 inch across to satisfy him. I think it might have been to hear the engine roar though.
There was a 40min walk and then a 10min each way shuttle to the island so we decided to do it from afar and take some pictures instead from a strategically-placed café. The island made a great backdrop but it was cold and windy so we pressed on, keen to get to see Tim and Jan and spend a bit of time with them.
Got to St Jean Brévelay around 1230 and had the grand tour of Tim and Jan’s wonderful French idyll. It was cool outside but we managed to get in a walk around the lake and a cup of coffee outside before retreating in for a typically French lunch (surprising seeing we are four English people). Some of the produce was from Jan’s garden and the eggs were fresh from the two remaining chickens, old age having caught up on the others.
Uncle Tim decided that the eggs could do with some dressing so we invented Oeufs
au Cidre Bréton, mainly because the cider we had bought for them at the previous stop had not survived some eager cornering on the way to their house and had gotten a bit lively. Tim sprayed it liberally over the meal (not intentionally) and that is how the dish was invented.
We walked around the lake that Tim has been helping clear for some other Anglais who are moving into the village and we heard all about the epic mobile home (pronounced as one word, “mobilhome” by the locals) moving, which Tim seems to have carved himself out a niche undertaking with his 4x4 Discovery. We were accompanied throughout by Jacquot, the Labradoodle, who had great fun leaping around the lawn and eating rabbit poo.
We then engaged in some people watching, route-planning and moaning about the various things wrong with the world (which we put right, by the way) on the terrasse and drank some tea before planning a trip out to see the Gulf of Morbihan, where their boat is moored. It is an immense enclosed expanse of water which is a paradise for sailors but Neal started feeling the effects of the cold weather/driving/lack of
Jacquot supervising
Our guest editor for this entry sleep and felt ill so was dropped off back at the house to rest.
We then went into Vannes for an apéritif as Tim and Jan insisted as they have now successfully assimilated into the French way of life. Followed by meal at restaurant Villa Valencia, where we enjoyed a good meal and an interesting sweet (that Bob had interpreted as coming with two women) but the waiter did seem to understand his requirements. It is off to Limoges tomorrow and we really don’t have time to spare if we want to make it in one day.
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Dinah
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Hi Glad the Porche is going well and you are not racing to impress, just parking awry. I presume there was GORSE not gauze, which is used for wounds,at the side of the road as the photo is rather dark. You both look a bit cold , we are having warm temperatures for a change! All change tomorrow when the winds are coming from the Arctic again! Drive carefully and look forward to the next instalment.