pont croix b&b

Have to make a mention of Sue's b&b in Pont Croix, Finistere. It's not been open very long but she's getting lovely comments from the people who've stayed. She offers a really characterful room with en suite facilities, situated in an interesting old town beside the river Goyen and she's a great host.
Being on a peninsular, Pont Croix is only a few minutes drive to a variety of sandy coves, dunes, rocky coasts and cliffs with a wealth of tiny, ancient villages inland. All year round there are stunning coastal walks and most weekends throughout the summer there will invariably be a traditional Breton fete in one of the surrounding villages.
I'm hoping to start loading some photographs of the area here.
A stay is highly recommended.

junk

Didn't get out much during the recent trip to Brittany. It fell at a difficult time and I had to take work with me. Checked the post one morning and these thirteen!! booklets were waiting for me offering a whole range of cheap food, cheap furniture, cheap tools, cheap toys, cheap bathroom and kitchen fittings, cheap wine and cheap clothes. It's not unusual for this amount of rubbish to appear through the letterbox. I pity the poor postal men and women who have to carry it all and mourn the trees that have given their lives in vain.

altercola

It's difficult to buy Coke or Pepsi in the local supermarket at Pont Croix. They like to offer Breizh Cola instead. The 'cola of Brittany', as it's called, is the local alternative. It is one of many types of alternate cola, or 'altercola', competing with the more established and widespread brands. These colas are currently produced in small volumes and are generally readily available in local markets only. I like their smaller glass bottles and I must say that it tastes good (if you like cola, that is).

quick trip

So to Brittany again recently. What fun!
Ryanair couldn't land at Brest because it was raining so they diverted to Dinard. S was due to collect me at the airport and, as this had also happened to friends last week and it took them hours to get back to Brest, she decided to drive to Dinard. After two hours sitting in the plane on the runway at Dinard we were informed that the staff there were not prepared to accept us so we would be flying off to Nantes. Quick call to S who was almost at Dinard by now. She said it would take just as long to go back to Brest as it would to follow me to Nantes so she would drive on and pick me up. An hour and a half after landing at Nantes S arrived with a very sick car. Just outside the airport we stopped and discovered there was no water in the engine. Several calls to the insurance company, a tow by a very nice man to his Citroen garage, a wait in the bus shelter outside his garage, a taxi back to the airport, a hire car to get us the 270kms to Pont Croix and we were back by 1.00 in the morning - a total journey time of only 16 hours.
Back to work now for a rest.

brittany coast 1

A couple of photos of Brittany from early last year. They keep appearing on my screen saver and it's a great coast. Wonderful rocks, small coves, muted colours and wild sea. It makes a change from white, snow covered England. I think I'll post some here every now and then.

adventurer

Went to see Trevor's new boat today. He's expecting to spend about 2 years doing it up, so we'll have to come back regularly to see his progress. It seems quite a task to me, but Trevor's worked on many boats before and assures us it's easy!

sky 1

The recent blue moon meant the tides were high today. We went to the beach at Mesperleuc and the late afternoon brought this great sky.