A productive and enjoyable weekend.

Friday night we went out with our friends Martine and Lewis from just up the road. He’s from Auckland, Martine is a Breton. I think. Definitely French anyway.

The musician was very good, just the right sort of music for a night out, not so loud that you couldn’t hear each other’s conversation, just right.

For 8 euros this was a bargain. The mushroom sauce was particularly good.

Saturday we took the bus to Rennes in the morning as Pauline wanted to do some shopping. Overcast day but that meant it was a lot cooler.

Compared to Josselin Rennes is quite grand.

Medieval buildings and a lot of people out dining

I do enjoy these wonky medieval buildings.

It’s nice to go to a city every now and then and we do like Rennes, but I was glad to get back home at the end of the day. There’s only so much shopping I can take unless it’s at a motorbike shop that is. Pauline was very happy with her purchases and we went to the enclosed market and admired the fish but bought some veges and fruit.

Sunday we biked along the canal to Pomeleuc to visit the chapel there.

I used to complain about my French bike but compared to the bikes we hired in Denmark it’s fantastic. Much lighter and better gears. It’s had a hard life but it’s done me proud really.

We spotted this otter on the other side of the canal, not sure what it was up to.

Chapelle Saint-Mélec au lieu-dit de Pomeleuc, Lanouée

A pilgrim of Saint-Jaques called Olivier Deslandes was buried here in 1669.

I think this is a gîte, you could rent it out and have a pleasant stay alongside the canal presumably.

We stopped at this ecluse for an icecream as it was a warmish day.

It’s good to get a bit of biking in as we want to bike to Redon at some stage which is 65 kms down the river and it won’t hurt to be a bit fitter before we do that 😀

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