Cycling Tuesday: 15.0km
Cycling Wednesday: 15.0km
Cycling Thursday: 20.3km (on Belle-Ile)
Walking Friday: 3.8km
Cycling Sunday: 7.3km
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We're on holiday!
Well, not really in the sense of going away somewhere but Linda, a good friend who was with us on day 1 at La Basse Cour when the removal van arrived, is staying with us so we've stopped doing any major projects and we're doing the sort of things that a tourist would do. It's interesting to see the place you live through different eyes so last Monday we went to the weekly market in Questembert. We occasionally visit the market through the winter when the really hardy stall holders still turn up but last Monday the town was packed in the sunshine, it took all my inside knowledge to find a sensible parking place and then we mixed with the tourists in the crowded streets.
I've also, after spending most of the five years in a bag, got my beautiful azure blue Bianchi Via Nirone bike back regularly on the road (it's the bike that has been in the bag, not me ..... ;o). Hence the increased cycling kilometrage last week.
And on Thursday we did something that we had talked about for several years and took the ferry to Belle-Ile for the day. The ferry leaves Vannes and spends an hour winding in and out of the islands in the Golfe du Morbihan before picking up passengers at Port Navalo and then going at full bore over the 12 miles to the main port on Belle-Ile, Le Palais. Belle-ile is 18km long and 6km wide with a network of cycle routes so it's ideal for hiring a bike and exploring. It was a very attractive place, outside Le Palais it was quiet despite being in the peak of the holiday season. The island has two distinct sides, the calmer landward side and the west facing Côte Sauvage, it's attracted many visitors over the years including Claude Monet who painted the western coast:
Belle-ile is somewhere we'd like to visit out of season and spend a couple of days exploring in a bit more depth.
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