Part 1 is here.
… British parents seemed to be controlled by their children – you can see even quite small kids sizing up their parents and thinking “if I do this they’ll really lose it”, whereas the French adults seem in control.
6. Staying in a mobile home on a camping site isn’t at all bad. For one person lots of space, a fridge and basic cooking facilities for leisurely breakfasts, and this is a lovely spot – Camping de l’Ocean. I’ve got a “sea view” – well a glimpse of the bay between two houses provided no car is going along the road at the time, the shade a giant old fir tree that scents the air with resin, lots of birds (finches, sparrows, swallows, and some doves that appear to be under the misapprehension that this is spring), a chorus of crickets from the neighbouring field – not bad for a week for 250 euros. (Although sadly now the euro is so strong France isn’t nearly as cheap overall as it used to be.)
7. The sea temperature at this time of year is quite pleasant – cool but not bracing, at least unless you let your feet trail dow a meter or so. After that, it is cold!
* Why are there so many menhirs (standing stones)? Well no one really knows, but it seems to me that when you look at a map the primary formation – the alignments du Menec, Kermario and Kerlescan (avenues of standing stones up to 10 wide) – they clearly form a “wall”, at least a psychological wall, across the peninsula. If you wanted to say to the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, who you’d pushed out as you started clearing the forests for agriculture “This is our bit”, then this was a pretty good way to do it.
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