Saturday, 9 May 2009

Brest

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We are now in Brest in an Internet Cafe - but one without drinks! That will have to be our next stop!
Back to Wednesday when we had a fairly easy day moving on to Camaret-sur-Mer, stopping off to do a geocache on a beach - we were fortunate that it was low tide so we could find the cave behind a huge rock (more of an island really) by walking round it rather than over the top! Also walked around the port at Morgat. The campsite at Trezrouz near Camaret was a bit scruffy, but it was overlooking the sea and it had a washing machine. So was an ideal stop over as the washing dried in the cool breeze during the evening.
Thursday was very dull, but dry so we explored Camaret by doing two caches on the stone jetty. The first was outside the chapel of Notre Dame de Rocamadour (very peaceful inside with Breton music and lots of symbols of the sea - model boats hanging from the ceiling) and the other was getting information from info panels, old boats etc. leading us to walk over the cliff path to a rocky outcrop to see the view of the harbour and find the treasure! Will attach a photo of this when we can use wifi next.
Towards the end of the day we drove almost to Brest, to another lovely campsite at St Jean beside the tidal Elorn. This was so nice we decided to spend Friday on the Presqu'il Pougastel Daoulas peninsular and return to St Jean for the night.
Yesterday began with rain dripping from the tree above us onto the van rooftop, but later in the morning the sun came out and it was the hottest day for several. Plougastel was celebrating 8th May 1945 VE day and we watched a little ceremony outside the church. Also saw the Calvaire - a monument built in 1604 to commemorate the end of the plague of 1589. Made of stone; it has 180 figures on four sides depicting scenes of the life of Christ. Another photo to add here. Popped into the local boulangerie for our baguette and were served with the freshest one ever - straight out of the oven and too hot to hold! Then we explored the pretty inlets of the peninsular with views of the Rade de Brest including Port Lamberlach and basking on the tiny beach at the Pointe d'Armorique.
Then to Brest this morning where we parked at Oceanopolis to visit the wonderful sea life centre - an Eden Project of the sea. More details next blog. Off to see Centre Ville.

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