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Oh, drove through Brest earlier.......
Awful place glad to get to the other side
Awful place glad to get to the other side
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Don't need anymore honey, I've got enough for about the next 50 years in jars at home!Wot about the honey?
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We've just pulled into the aire at Landernau, #108 in All the Aires. €6 for 24 hours including free electricity as a number of the pitches have EHU - the place is a former campsite, probably municipal.
We will go for a wander after lunch to see the famous bridge and regretfully @Fenman I feel duty bound to post pictures!
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Yes it was merguez. Until I looked it up I was half expecting the Spanish megas, fried bread crumbs or flour. And yes I think the sauce was harrisa based, it was the right colour.Spicy sausage would probably be merguez, theoretically made from mutton. The hot sauce would more than likely be harissa, sounds like cous cous royale. Very nice, tempting me on one of my diet days
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Yes it was merguez. Until I looked it up I was half expecting the Spanish megas, fried bread crumbs or flour. And yes I think the sauce was harrisa based, it was the right colour.
There are two aires in CamperContact, one on the edge of town which is in the supermarket parking and one without services on the point to the west, which I guess is the one you parked near. It was blowing a gale so we didn't fancy the sand dunes. I was after the one by the town so we could visit it to eat out and see the historic covered market. We will have to leave that for another day now.We stayed just 200 metres further down the road form the aire at Plouescat (are you sure you were at the right one?)
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...drink coca cola on the ferry if its rough.
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Be delighted to see you again before you leave!it works though ,believe me .
my dad was in the royal navy and merchant navy . he told me about it .
but safe crossing .
might even have a ride up and see you before i disappear.
two sugars .
Lovely pictures and enjoying reading of your journey. The wife and I visited Lac de Guerlédan around the same time and found it empty. We arrived at the point of the Lac where you could walk down to the bottom of the Lac and follow the canal and see the buildings and water preserved trees normally under water. We returned a couple of years later to the same spot and the Lac was full again. A real "once in a lifetime" experience. Unfortunately the photos we took are on another device so can't uploadAfter a lazy day on Sunday we headed south on Monday but only as far as St Aignan, a little village beside Mur de Bretagne. There is a aire in the village but it was packed solid. CamperContact says it has room for five but French motorhomes must be smaller as there were eight of them! However all was not lost as the Commune de Sainte Aignan have set up a seasonal aire with seventy places on the sports field on the edge of the village. This proved very peaceful, grass under foot and a drive over waste point. Only down side was there was only one fresh water tap and that was over the cassette emptying point which itself was of such a narrow bore your offerings to it are reluctant to descend. I was about to call Mary and ask if she could find a stick when I noticied others had had the same problems and a couple of well worn sticks were lying by my foot. With these I was able to encourage things to follow the hint from gravity and seek the nearest sewage treatment plant.
All of which is getting ahead of matters because after we arrived the previous day we went for a walk on the marked footpath to the Lac de Guerlédan, which was ultimately unsuccessful as the Lac had vanished!
A bit of history. Before Napoleon learned his place he started the building of a canal from Nantes to Brest so goods could be moved from Nantes to the major naval port of Brest inland and away from the marauding British. The canal had only a brief life like those in the UK but the towpath now makes a fine cycle route and I cycled the full length of it a couple of years ago.
Except for the bit at the Lac de Guerlédan because this reservoir, opened in 1930, flooded a section of the canal and many locks so now cyclists have to turn off the towpath and pass through Mur de Bretagne, which I now know as Murder Bretagne as the hill you are forced up is evily steep. My brother managed to cycle up it but I had to get off and walk!
This is the end of the Nantes-Brest canal below the dam (barrage).
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The abandoned house is the éclusiers or lockeeper's cottage. On other stretches of the canal these are often holiday gîtes decorated with flowers.
The dam from below looks as expected.
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But after a steep walk through the woods we got above the dam and found it was doing a better impersonation of a wall rather than a dam as there was no water behind it. The path was fenced off and visibility poor and this was the best view I could get of the upper side of the dam.
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Signs of fresh concrete suggest the dam has lasted less time than the canal. From what I could see of the lake it has been drained for a couple of years and I suspect it could take the same time to fill. It used to be popular for watersports but not any more and this may explain why St Aignan was a ghost town with closed shops. Even the bar was closed but that might have been because it was a Monday. Perhaps.
This morning, after wrestling with the black waste point as described in unnecessary detail earlier we drove down to the Morbihan and we have stopped at Larmor Baden which is a lovely little village and port. The reason for coming here is the Cairn de Gavrinis, a neolithic burial mound which has carvings inside it. At the time it was built the sea was considerably lower than it is today and now you can only reach it by boat. We have booked our tickets for tomorrow afternoon!
Lucky you Lenny..it takes us 6 hours..Lucky devil, takes us 40 minutes to get to Newhaven.
But our ferry crossing is 2 hours shorter.
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