Thursday, 2 July 2009

Have we turned into annoying Francophiles?

Street Art in Paris I must admit, not really much to write at this stage. So, I will try to focus on one little Paris event. We were there for basically part of an afternoon, night and morning. We shopped, ate sushi (the food not the cat) and went to an art gallery. [MORE...]

Wednesday, 1 July 2009

St Malo et Dinard

Guitar Store, Dinard

St Malo! A little town with lots of tourists. St Malo! The gateway to Guernsey & the Channel Isles. As we had finished on our bike tour, we wanted to get to the place we didn’t make it to on the bike. [MORE...]

Monday, 29 June 2009

Cancale…

Photograph stop Cancale is a little coastal town, that is famous - very famous - for it’s oysters. Along the coast line, there are these really old chateaus with fantastic sea-views. Property with a view is always a good selling point… [MORE...]

Saturday, 27 June 2009

Bretagne ou Brittany?

Yeah! We were tough cross-forest cyclists.Bretagne! The Bretons who live in Bretagne (or Brittany) are a Celtic culture, and speak a Celtic language “Breton” similar to Welsh or Cornish or Gaelic. And, the little village in Gaul that was made famous by the Asterix series, was of course in what is now Bretagne. [MORE...]

Thursday, 25 June 2009

Le Mont Saint Michel!

Mont Saint Michel with Tour buses Le Mont Saint Michel - a fairy tale Abbey town on a rocky island mount.  In the 8th century, the St Michael the Archangel repeatedly told his contractor (St Aubert - Bishop of Avranches), to build church on the rocky island mount. Like most contractors, this was ignored [MORE...]