Holidays 2012
Today we made the 2 hour journey from Arzon in Bretagne to Mont Saint Michel in Normandy, picniccing on the way at a popular service station with barbeque tables. It is hard to briefly summarise the structures--all very, very impressive. It was never captured by the English or anyone
Holidays 2012
Extracting salt from sea water, to a chemist, sounds like a very pedestrian matter--but here at Guerande they have an age-old process with several stages, taking all year to extract salt from the clay pens and then making a very successful business of the marketing. and once again,
Holidays 2012
Christiane's sister lives here and we were fortunate to be able to stay there one night. La Rochelle is a popular sailing resort, with a medieval town centre and some very nice shops. Helene and Christiane.... Mary touching Atlantic Ocean for first time this trip! In the baker&
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I had no idea that there existed, in a place as close to Britain, a site like Stonehenge, but vastly larger in size, with endlessly more stones, of similar age. It is called Carnac and much of the history is in a language similar to Celtic and Cornish. Vannes is
Holidays 2012
Sorry for lack of commentary and poor picture separation--a combination of lack of time and still struggling with adding pictures properly--they won't go where I want them! The TGV train journey was excellent and made me aware once more of how pathetic our rail system in
Holidays 2012
We visited (thanks to suggestion of Roger and Lorraine) the museum of miniatures, models made for film sets as well as just for art purposes. Other street scenes and items of interest. Lunch next to the museum La place de Terraux School students entering a 'Traboule' ...and written
Holidays 2012
Saturday evening we were met by Alexande and Christine and their son Robin and taken to a very nice restaurant which they knew very well, for a very nice meal--and a lot of entertaining talk with the owner, whom they also knew well. We took photos on one of
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There are two train stations in Vallance and we arrived at the largest and newest on with half an hour to spare, to realise that we were at the wrong one! After a hair-raising dash to the right one, we caught the train with minutes to spare. Not good
Holidays 2012
Today, in spite of the mountain mist, Mary was determined we walk to a prominent look-out-with spectacular views of the 'Grand Goulets'. The pictures here tell the story, on the way and at the top!!.......Hmmmnnnnn.....there were some nice bushes, though...............and an interesting conversation
Holidays 2012
Last night we we were invited to Agnes sister and family for a meal.Their middle son, Justin, is collecting carnivorous plants!
Holidays 2012
Today we visited some villages and towns outside the boundaries of the Vercors Region. This one is exceptional in its location in a gorge, leading to some worrying balcony constructions! and some medieval passageways...........and attractive cascades of water from the hills We left Pont-en-Royans via a series
Holidays 2012
Here are a few more pics--including Agnes throwing snowballs at me! Also a sillouette of Agnes on the snow. Because of Agnes' intimate knowledge of the area, we hardly followed any of the proper tracks, so it was a real 'explorers' walk!