Rain, wind, then sun!

The next leg of our journey took us to the Bayeux area where we visited the famous Bayeux Tapesty. It was fascinating to see this tapestry that was a massive 80m long and documents the story of William the Conqueror. It's still in pretty good condition and even though the wording is in Latin you can still get a feel for the story from the images.




We then continued on to see the spectacular Mont St-Michel. The only problem was that the weather had turned bad and about 1000 other people had the same idea as us to visit that afternoon. =) I managed to take this photo before it was too gloomy but it's still quite amazing. It's a great sight from afar as there is flat land - then dominated by this site of the small island and abbey on top. The street to walk up there was very narrow and with everyone carrying umbrellas, made for chaotic conditions on the walk up to the abbey. I was an amazing place to see despite the conditions, certainly memorable that's for sure. The cool thing about it here is that the tides fluctuate something like 12m so the little island has no access at high tide.



Here we are on the top of Menez-Hom, in Bretagne. A small mountain of 330m, with an extremely strong wind at the top. Easily the strongest wind I've walked around in. My poor dad (Seng) was cold as you can see from these pictures. Pezi and Tinu our Swiss friends look amused.



Mum and I having a laugh at the top of Menez-Hom. We had a bit of a giggle as I thought I looked pregnant in this picture (actually I'm carrying my ipod around shoved in my jacket so it's only my baby ipod...)



After Menez-Hom we drove down to Locronan, which is a beautiful small town that looks like it has been left from 200 years ago. Lovely old buildings and cobble streets. That's Mum walking towards me.



Here is my dad, Seng, watching the traffic, mostly tourists of course. It was the last week of holidays for the French so there were still a lot of people around.



We travelled to Quiberon a pretty big island off the north west coast. It was lovely weather and a nice wind, so I took my frisbee down to the beach and had a play with the wind! We then enjoyed an apperitif at a beach side cafe watching the sun set.... ahh..




On the way to Vannes, where we would stay the night, we when via Carnac. This is the area where there are many Megalithic monuments from the Neolithic period (4500BC to 2000BC). We saw many menhirs (meaning 'long stone') and dolmens (meaning 'stone table') which were fascinating. The placement and meaning of these megalithes is really unknown, they stretch for kilometers and sometimes in a series of perfect lines... what ever the reason it was pretty significant for them to move such large rocks in to such arrangements.



Finally, here is me with my charming impersonation of a menhir. =)