Month: July 2024

  • It’s a lovely day today so we hired this little boat and went for a gentle pootle. The boat was fun and very quiet. It’s going to be hot this week, 33 on Monday. That’s quite warm for Brittany.

  • We had a great day today, the market this morning was really busy, we bought veges and talked to people, the cheese man was there so I got some compté and trois laits cheeses (three milks), then in the afternoon we went biking so this evening we thought a nice dinner at La Sarrazine was in…

  • Having spent a week lying low and getting over the covid we hired a car from the local super U supermarket, as you do, and drove to Douarnenez for the weekend. While discussing the car hire on the phone, the very nice man also asked me about some onions I had ordered online. This doesn’t…

  • Josselin is staging a medieval festival today. We had great plans to hire medieval costumes and join in the fun, there were tents selling food and actors and villagers dressed up to the nines. We’d been invited out for drinks and to watch the Bastille day fireworks and then we had planned to go to…

  • Pauline is very fond of the TV program “Vera” and we found that it was avaliable in Sweden via svtplay.swe but only in Sweden. However if I set up the Pi as a wifi access point and connect it to Sweden via a VPN we can connect the Chromecast to the pi and stream to…

  • We took the train to Brussels, arrived about 8:30 pm, spent the night there. I’m now at Montparnasse waiting for my train to Rennes. Pauline is off to Antwerp for a conference. It will be nice to be back in Josselin shortly for me, Saturday for Pauline.