Old places




Mont St. Michel
We have spent quite a bit of time on the road as you would expect and these are generally rather nice times with everyone reading or colouring in or listening to audiobooks. Poor Josh is the only one who is having a stressful time of it trying to navigate the signs and directions. Though luckily for us all I am slowly getting better at reading a map! We've been mostly travelling old-school style - not gps!


Everyone in their traveling spots. Pretty cozy really.
And no seat belts!


The scenery has been very beautiful. There seems to be a mono-crop of wheat - though of course, this is very nice to look at growing. I like it how the paddocks don't have fences - it helps to feel like we are included in the scenery a bit more.
Wheat fields in the north
The week we spent with Daniel, Glencora and Jella has been very enjoyable. We visited lots of old towns, some castles, and a special abbey - Mont St Michel - which was built on an island (in full tide) and remained in French hands all throughout the hundred year war and all the other disastrous moments of history. Only in the French revolution did it really get affected - the monks and nuns prohibited to keep their daily rituals and the abbey was turned into a prison. 1400 political prisoners were imprisoned there for many years.

This photo was taken by Glencora
We parked up the previous night at a nearby town
and biked to Mont St Michel the next morning


We spent one of our days here at St Malo - a fortified city that was reclaimed land. They began building in the medieval times - gaining funds for it by a bit of casual pirating!
One of the canons one the city wall. The surrounding islands
also had ancient fortifications on them.








We've been making most of the french bread
cheese Sam!
Cooking in the camper- not always the easiest! But we've managed ok so far.
Beautiful forests to ride in. And so many wild flowers!






This was one of my favourite towns in the north. The buildings here are of darker granite
type stone and are pretty tidy looking

The further south we've gone the lighter the building materials have become. There were a few hours of driving when the buildings were crumbling whitewash, rundown and all in need of some tlc, but then suddenly - the really old buildings were back with now a white and yellow style stone. Not so elaborate on the outside but very tidy and well maintained. We noticed there were hardly any 'new' places around. It really feels like we could be back in the1600 except for the cars and tractors of course!

It was sad to say goodbye to Daniel, Glencora, and Jella when it was time for them to head home! It was wonderful to share our journey with them for a while. Thank you guys!








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  1. Unknown26 May 2018 at 06:50

    So nice to see how you are spend you're time together. Happy it works so well

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