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Tuesday 13 August 2013

Familiar places!

A beautiful sunny morning – YEY!!!  The first for a few days!  Started by a leisurely drive along coast road from Trebeurden to Perros-Guirec. It is so beautiful, little islands all in the pink granite are scattered everywhere and little bays and villages with fishing harbours line the coast.
We hit the main road to take us east, one of the first times we've been on a main road all holiday! Timing worked well for us to aim for Cora at Dinan/St Malo.  We could see the church at Pleudihen-sur- Rance as we went over the bridge, scaffolding was still on the steeple!!  Feels strange to be in such a familiar area without actually stopping at Cerilan’s house.  Saw some nice sights though like the Rance, strangely there was a diversion so we had to go down to the Pleudihen turn off to get onto the road east – so funny!!  Bought lots of nice things at Cora, it is definitely the best supermarket brand in Franc in my opinion. 
Continued along the main road and I snapped a picture of Le Mont-Saint-Michel as we go past.
We then drove around past Avranches and to a village called Saint-Jean-le-Thomas.  It is a quiet village on the west coast of the peninsular that goes north to Cherbourg.  Next to a municipal campsite with about 12 spaces is the aire, it is nicely landscaped.  The problem of our cards not working the machine happened again, an Irish family in a LT31 also couldn’t buy a ticket, she said she’d got one from the campsite office.  Instead of that I managed again ask a French couple to buy me one!!  I surprised myself really!!

The beach has nice views of the whole bay across to Le Mont-Saint-Michel from the side we've never seen before, the tide was out again as far as you could see but the kids enjoyed collecting shells and dead crabs again, they stank. 
Did a round trip walk around the village but there wasn’t a lot there so came back to Flo.  The Irish family have 2 young children and speak Irish to them, they came over to play with our toys for a bit, the little girl is 3 and is hard work for her parents!!

Chris did a bbq for tea with garlic lemon and prawns, delicious.  I went down to the campsite to use the toilet and showers, Chris also filled our 8 litre water bottle from their tap.