Of course, no day trip to the seaside would be complete without a little paddle…
And i can’t believe how therapeutic…
A little paddle can be!
The FifteenYearOld didn’t really want to join in…
But I suppose that he’s at that difficult age…
When a paddle in the sea isn’t so much fun?
Obviously, one of the reasons that The Girlie, The FifteenYearOld and I went to St Malo on a day trip was…
So that I could enter the Biggest Belly in Brittany Competition!
And, in the picture above…
You’ll see me limbering up for it!
You also see me having a paddle for the first time in…
Eight years!
Why did I wait so long?…
So, the Girlie, the FifteenYearOld and I decided to pop up to St Malo for a quiet day of culture!
No one told us about the Catamaran races which meant that…
There were no parking spaces for miles!
Still, it was a nice drive round searching for one…
For three hours!
Now, the Girlie isn’t the tallest of people…
But even she towers over this door spotted in Rochefort en Terre…
Father is studying Asterix at his U3A class…
So whilst he was over here he wanted to look at some Menhirs…
And see if he could spot Asterix, Oberlix, Getafix or Dogmatix…
“Not a problem”, I said. “St. Just is only 8km away. And I know a short cut….”
During our visit to Rochefort en Terre Father and I were lucky enough to watch a local motorbike rally ride through the town…
About a hundred motor bikes….
It proved a nice distraction from watching the tourists and trying to work out where they came from.
Once the bikes had gone past we went for a wander and pretended to be tourists…
I’m not sure what country the other tourists thought we came from?
During his stay here, Father and I visited Rochefort en Terre.
It was on the way back from Vannes and the weather was good so we made a minor (and intended, this time) detour.
Rochefort is a favourite with tourists but none the worse for that.
We wandered a bit and then sat down for a coffee….
And to watch the world go by…
On a recent trip to Vannes, Father and I went into the fish market.
We arrived a little bit late and they were starting to pack up.
We did manage to pick up some smoked sardines (which were lovely!) and a dozen large oysters.
During a little day trip to Vannes (where I amazingly didn’t get lost a dozen times), I spotted these bikes for hire….
Sunday was sunny and so The Girlie, The ThirteenYearOld and I all went to Glenac to the vide grenier there.
It’s one of the better vide greniers because of its location down by the river.
I’m not really sure that we were looking for anything special but, if we were, we didn’t find it.
The Girlie treated herself to a wastebin and a blue kettle – she really knows how to pamper herself.
I bought a few books so I’m quite happy.
Read more about… A vide grenier at Glenac
I’m not 100% sure why I’ve received this but, I’ll pass it on anyway.
I have a feeling that these people contacted me a while ago to see if I was interested in publicising their activities.
Anyway, here it is… Saison 2010 du Centre Arthurien agenda in PDF format.
It’s in French and covers the period from the 4th of April to the 17th of October.
There seems to be a lot of interesting things happening – I’ll have to try and get along to a few of them.
It’s make a change from all those Vide-greniers!
All the best
One of the nice things about taking The Thirteen Year Old to school (apart from seeing deer to salivate over), is that I can stop off and have a coffee in the bar/PMU afterwards.
I see it as my little treat for driving all that way through blizzard conditions on little lanes that haven’t been resurfaced since Hadrian was up this way!
I love sitting in the bar with a coffee and watching the world go by. The same people are there every day, all planning which horses they are going to love their money on and all willing to have a little chat about the blizzard conditions and the state of the back lanes which haven’t been resurfaced since….
Now, there may be some readers of Breton Diary who are too young to remember the Manhattan Transfer; there may be but… I think they are probably lying about their age!
Manhattan Transfer were (and still are), an American vocal band who got to number one in the UK charts in 1977 with the lovely Chanson d’Amour.
Which brings me rather nicely to Valentine’s Day celebrations chez Breton Diary.
Now, you may remember that last year I dragged to Girlie to the Hotel Restuarant du Chateau in Josselin (which was handy because we were living in Josselin then.)
The Girlie went to England last week; to stay with my sister, see her daughter (and her parents), go shopping, do more shopping, drink tea and natter about the shopping and….. all that other Girlie stuff.
Joshy and I were left at home to be Bachelors Alone.
So, as well as pigging out on microwave burgers, we decided to visit the car museum at Loheac – it’s a man thing!
As well as cars, there are a few boats and motorbikes – and a few things that could be best described as an amalgam of all three!
I’ve finally realised (perhaps due to all the “Are you still alive?” emails that I’ve been receiving), that it might be time to post something on BretonDiary.com.
So, to all of you who are worried – Yes, I’m still alive and plan to be so for the next 100 years or so!
The truth is, a lot has been happening recently and I’ve been spending many hours away from the PC.
This is a list of various things that I shall be talking about in more detail in the near future…..
As it was Valentine’s Night, I took the Girlie out for a meal last Saturday.
We went to the Hotel Restuarant du Chateau (more details from… http://www.hotel-chateau.com).
It was a lovely romantic night; we ate well and the Girlie even managed to get me onto the dance floor.
Wonders will never cease!
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