Day 541 – Friday 6th September 2019
A cold start to the day but the sun soon came out so we hopped on Zippy to visit Les Alignments.
You see them all over this part of Brittany; at the side of the road, littered about the countryside and in people’s front gardens.
Some of these boulders weigh well over 20 tons so what I find remarkable about Les Alignments is the physical effort involved in putting these enormous boulders in place. Especially when you consider how sparse the population must have been in 4,000BC and the fact they must have spent a fair bit of their waking lives either looking for food or generally trying to survive. The big stones would’ve take dozens of men to move. I don’t buy all this rolling them along on logs. Most logs are neither round nor straight they tend to be a bit bent & bumpy and very little ground is anything like flat. They didn’t have osteopaths in them days either.
At Les Alignments they do a tour in English on Mondays and Wednesdays but having taken it some years ago I can do it for you now;
That’ll be €15 each merci beaucoup 😀
Quiberon is at the end of a peninsular and its west side of the peninsular is battered by the Atlantic giving it the look of Cornwall.
… and you can always find something dodgy to climb…
In some shock news this Blog’s photographer has resigned her post over artistic differences!!!
Day 542 – Saturday 7th September 2019
It rained last night but it’s very sunny this morning. In the morning we did all the boring chores and after lunch went for a nose around La Trinité-sur-Mer.
After a nose about we went down to the Pointe de Kerbihan,
Day 543 – Sunday 8th September 2019
A sunny intervals sort of day.
Market over we took Zippy to Auray
Day 544 – Monday 9th September 2019
A not warm but wet day. I cooked a monster Dhal and we binge watched some TV and played cards. We play a game called Spite & Malice. Tonight Julie lost and I have never witnessed such poor sportsmanship; she made Roy Keane look well balanced,.
Day 545 – Tuesday 10th September 2019
A better day. Still a little chilly but at least it was dry.
We hopped on Zippy and went to Locmariaquer, a little town on the Gulf de Morbihan for a nose about.
Day 546 – Wednesday 11th September 2019
Another sunny intervals sort of day. Up early and on the road to La Rochelle. It was an uneventful journey, we had a bit of trouble finding a site, the one we wanted was completely full which considering it’s the middle of September surprised me.
I took a couple of spins about on Zippy to get the lay of the land. La Rochelle is a lot bigger than I imagined.
Day 547 – Thursday 12th September 2019
Overcast start to the day but the clouds soon cleared and it was a beautiful afternoon.
Last night Cfor went out about 10pm, he loves the dark. About 15 minutes later he came in all hissing, something obviously really spooked him.
We visited the local towns of Angoulins & Chatelaillon-Plage in the afternoon.
Walking along the gravel track back from the beach tonight a van sped passed me then about 20m later it suddenly swerved onto the gravel track then quickly got back onto the road. The driver must have been fucking about with his phone.