A tiger at the supermarket

We visited Vannes for a look at the old buildings and the port:

The next day was labour day and the shops were giving Lily of the Valley flowers away to everyone:

We visited Rochefort-en-terre, which was a very pretty village with interesting shops and buildings and a smell of medieval herbs everywhere:

Then we visited La Roche-Bernard and had a look at the boats there:

We had galettes for lunch in a very old restaurant where there were lots of dogs:

At the supermarket, there were tigers and other animals in the carpark from a local circus!

We did some more rock-pooling:

Isla enjoyed examining her shell collection in the car:

Adventures in France part 1

Waiting to drive onto the ferry:

Watching the ferry refuelling:

Bye bye to Poole:

Bonjour to Cherbourg:

We had an adventure driving to our gite. The journey should have taken 3 and a half hours but took double that as our car broke! We eventually limped to our gite and had some dinner. The next day, we limped to the local village market:

We found a lovely beach with millions and billions of shells which Isla LOVED:

We found some crabs!

We had our lunch outside at our gite:

The next day was Monday and so we could get our car fixed. This was quite complicated but we managed with our amazing French linguistic skills. For a large part of the day, Isla's little bike was our only means of transport:

By the evening we had a replacement car and went on an adventure. We found a park, much to Isla's excitement:

The next day we had lunch in a lovely restaurant in Damgan. We ate huge gallettes filled with cheese and ham.

We played in the garden, went to collect our fixed car, and then went to the beach again to find more crabs and shells.

We visited the chateau de Suscinio, and searched for a monster from one of Isla's books, who lives in a castle: