Happy Friday!
You know, the French don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, but for some reason they still celebrate the Black Friday concept!
Beautiful Post-Aven with mill stream running right through town! An Idyllic Small Town
Up this morning about the usual time – 7-ish, still pitch black out (see note below), but definitely the promise of rain in the forecast. We went out for our usual croissants and pain-au-chocolat; it was REALLY cold out! 3 degrees Celsius – about 37 degrees F – but also with the car’s thermometer, there was a little * snowflake symbol, and the warning about ice. UGH! Back to the apartment and our usual breakfast, but by the time we were ready to go out, it was raining … and raining… So, we decided that as we had no special plans for the day, we would stay nice and warm in our apartment for a bit and read our books!
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| Pont-Aven harbor |
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| Certainly they have enough rocks! |
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Weather seems to move very quickly here – one minute it’s pouring, and 5 minutes later there is sunshine! And, as R commented, even when it’s sunny it can also be raining. I know in Hawaii they call that liquid sunshine – but not sure what they call it here!
One of our favorite places in Brittany, from years long past, is Pont-Aven. It’s a small harbor town with a beautiful main street and lovely houses. There was also some sort of fine art connection (if I remember correctly) to Art Center, which sent me here at least once or twice. So, decided we would head that way, which is west. Truly lovely drive, both there and back! Robert found some wonderful funky little roads, but had to be careful as there are so many inlets and not all of them have bridges … meaning that one could drive a very long way, only to be stopped by a very narrow and shallow body of water!
Me freezing on the breezy bridge! Great Houses! Beautiful park! And even a rainbow to end the day!
And, I must add here, that R, continues being the patient, wonderful man he always is! I’ve got a bit of a “chippy tummy” (happens occasionally when we travel) and honestly, I wasn’t feeling a bit inclined to go out to dinner. (Chippy tummies need things like scrambled eggs or soup – not pizza or beef steak!) So, we went out to our local Lidl grocery store, and I was able to get several boxes of Knorr “12-vegetable soup”. At the same time, R picked up pasta and sauce for himself. So, we are now in for the night (when it’s supposed to rain a lot!) and then wind tomorrow! On to Vannes, we’re thinking!
Lots of love,
m
xxx
A note about time: All of France is on European Time, which is one hour later that Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) – that is, England. But Brittany is due south of England (actually west of London in longitude), so by rights, the time here should be GMT – an hour earlier than, say, Paris. Sunrise tomorrow is about 8:30 European Time but, if the clocks in Brittany were set correctly, it would be 7:30.
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