Day 12 – September 20
We were woken in the night by an alarm going off on a neighbouring motorhome but it was cancelled so quickly that Peter decided that wasn’t a problem, and our only problem after that was a wayward mosquito buzzing around.
When we woke properly it was to a blue sky and brilliant sunshine for the first time on the trip. It made such a difference. Much as we look on this as a change of lifestyle, at present it is still a prolonged holiday, and I think it will take a while to get away from this frame of mind. Typically the day the sun shines is a day we had planned to travel a distance!
Our itinerary was to travel to Carnac calling off at a few places en route (note how I am slipping into the lingo??) First off was Concarneau to visit the Ville Close which is an island located citadel set away from the town accessed by a narrow bridge. It’s a bit of a tourist trap with all the usual souvenir shops, restaurants and bars and in summer it must be packed, but today we had it virtually to ourselves. There are flowers everywhere and it looked lovely.
From here we went on to Pont Aven, inspiration of Paul Gaugin the Impressionist painter. Sounds very highbrow, and I hope you are impressed, but it is actually just a pretty port town with a lot of flowers, a nice bridge and an old mill – sorry to be such a Philistine!
Next on our agenda was Quiberon, but we didn’t quite make it …. there was very heavy traffic, the first we had encountered, and we were distracted by an aire immediately overlooking the Atlantic. This stretch of the coast is known as the Cote Sauvage – do I need to say more?
We ended today sitting in fabulous sunshine with wine/beer of course, next to our Dutch neighbours doing exactly the same, and before dinner we took a walk, or rather a scramble, over the rocky headland with the sea crashing in below – today’s photo says it all.
C’est la vie!
PS Total distance to date: 2007 kms.
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