Hotel Armen Le Triton Roscoff

... giving birth, her millk is till given to her calf until they go off to be raised for meat. No names for these little ones.

One afternoon we went to Tonto (Uncle) Jean Pierr’s farm. Such a shame about the lack of language as I would have loved to pick this man’s brain. He had taken an old stone home that was just a shell and brought it to a beautiful finish. He has also build an old fashioned bread oven in his ...

The only full day tour on the cruise was to the beaches of Normandy. It was actually a two hour trip from the boat (all the Americans went and none of the Germans!). The first stop was the Caen Memorial (war museum) where we saw actual footage of the D -Day landing (without any vocals ) which was very moving. The two beaches we visited were Omaha and Pointe du Hoc.The beaches were beautiful and it was sunny clear day so hard in some ways to image the conditions that ...

... the tide of Hitler's domination.

We stayed three days in the area visiting plenty of sites to fill our minds with a measure of the huge impact, loss and challenge of D-Day and after: The Airborne Museum, Utah Beach, Gold Beach, German Cemetary, Pont du Hoc, Ranger Memorial, Omaha Beach and The American Cemetary and visitors' center.

What struck me deeply in sort of a ...

After last night I got up quiet late and we went Josh and I went to Christophe to copy some old French movies on DVDs for me to take back home at the end of the trip but we run into a trap as I was told we were expected to have lunch with them. So I went back to the hotel to ...

After a restful night I decided to go and do the washing duty as marg was still under the weather and Josh was not feeling well either so it was as well. As soon as I was done I swinged by the local fast food to bring home lunch so we could seat down and have something to eat while we watched the game. Australia v France... it was a ...

This morning after breakfast we were going back to our room when someone was behind me and it was Christophe.... he really has not changed we had a long chat and as we both had thing to do we decided to have a drink tomorrow night before going for diner. I went back to the room and we took the road to the Pointe du Raz.... no visit in Brittany would be complete without a visit to the Pointe du Raz. There it has changed as well, all the shaggy ...

After packing the car we went on the port for the "petit dejeuner" and we took the tourist drive toward Brest to be closer to my friends. We found a hotel called Oceania with a swimming pool (do not get excited as it is only 3ft deep) design for English tourist in mind. But the rooms were nice and large so all in all not a bad choice but for the location.... the local industrial estate. Anyway ...

... Jose & I were lucky enough to witness the sunset set and the ringing of the Roscoff Church bells which has its own unique chime! I recommend to add Roscoff to your list if you ever use the Brittany Ferries!

... Perhaps it's just like that for the tourists, I don't know, but in any case, this was the sort of thing I came to Europe to see. You know, all the stuff you see in the movies and the news, but never get to see in person. And not just the big stuff, like the Eiffel Tower, The Leaning Tower of Pisa and so on, but small villages like Roscoff, where you can experience things you ...

... Lucky we left enough time to catch the train as at Reading they did their best to lose the booking. It required intervention by the station manager to sort the mess out. Caught a direct train to Plymouth and with an hour or so to kill we head for sunset views overlooking the sea. The park is well landscaped with open space, gardens, memorials and a group of nutty students playing ...