May 2010

Friday, May 21, 2010 Funny name that, presque ile or “almost island”, I suppose one can call a peninsula that. We were advised by the lovely lady at the Brest tourist office to spend some quality time here as it is beautiful and she was right. She wasn’t so right about it being “plat” or […]

Thursday, 20 May 2010 What a difference one day makes, we woke up to the sound of boats sounding their horns as it was very misty but this soon cleared and it turned out to be a superb day. Quite a strange camping as I had to hunt the owner down in order to pay

Wednesday, 19 May 2010 The least said about today the better I think. I must have gotten out of the wrong side of the sleeping bag because I was in a foul mood all day, poor Ellie to have to put up with that. I suppose it started though when a beautiful morning dawned, the

Today we wanted to put in some distance again, we were told by our friend at the farm that today’s stage would be relatively flat and he didn’t lie, twenty out of the eighty kilometers were flat as a pancake. We resisted the temptation to cut off a piece of coast and still went to

Ouch, that was not funny, the price you pay for staying low down, to get out of Lannion it was a long, steep uphill which seemed to never end, we had to rest halfway to catch our breath, after that it flattened out a bit a guess what we saw in a field next to

Sunday, 16 May 2010How’s that for a healthy rest day breakfast Rest day after all is to rest and fatten up 🙂 After devouring this lot we went exploring town and as it happened when we went to admire the cathedral they just were getting ready for mass so we parked our bicycles inside (they

Saturday 15 May, 2010 The camping may have been noisy and big but the setting is very nice, right on the pink granite coast. There are some walks there so we decided to take a chance, take our valuables with and leave the rest in the tent. So far we have actually felt very safe

Friday 14 May, 2010 To be honest the trip to Perros-Guirec was a bit of a drab affair. Perhaps it was the weather but the buildings looked uninteresting, even the usual church couldn’t inspire us. It was spitting off and on and when it came to lunchtime it turned to a drizzle, luckily I found

Thursday, May 13, 2010 After the cold of yesterday it actually warmed up considerably in the afternoon, not a cloud in the sky in the evening. As I am a sucker for punishment I offered again to sleep in Ellie’s thin sleeping bag and woke up in the morning rather chilly. Not surprising as, when

Thursday morning, May 13,2010 Just quickly as I have to get off this wifi at the camping. Yesterday was a fairly uneventful day. I will comment later. This morning we woke up with ice on the tent! It is warming up fast though and we will sweat later!