As predicted, the weather took a turn for the worse on Saturday, it poured down all day. We took the bateaubus across from Port Louis to Lorient and planned to visit the submarine museum. Unfortunately the weather seemed to have brought lots of others to the museum as well and the morning tours were fully booked. Rather than hang around til the afternoon - the museum is in what looks like an industrial estate! - we took the opportunity to visit the Cite de la Voile, an excellent way to spend a few wet hours in Lorient. By the time we left the Cite the rain was coming down hard so we headed into the centre of town with the intention of getting some - very late - lunch. Well its just well nigh impossible to find somewhere selling food after 14.00 and before 19.00. However we eventually struck lucky and made our way back in the still pouring rain to Port Louis.
We had planned to leave for Quiberon on Sunday but once again the weather was not in our favour so we took a long walk and bateaubus back, by then the weather had once again closed right in.
By Monday the skipper was suffering from a bad case of marina-itis so we decided to take a chance and head off to Port Haliguen / Quiberon. It was grey and grim and the wind was blowing quite hard but it was behind us so at least we were only rolling with the sea rather than slamming into the waves......this is definitely not what I had expected when we planned to spend the summer in Brittany. The trip was uneventful until we got to the end of the Quiberon peninsula - at which point we picked up a current against us from somewhere and we started to get pulled towards some very nasty looking rocks. Some conversation ensued between skipper and crew and we thankfully managed to head ourselves out of what by then was a nastily building sea. The remainder of the trip to Port H was smooth once we got into the bay.
We had a lovely walk into Quiberon town this morning from the marina - about a mile. Last time we were in Quiberon both Richard and Stuart were little more than toddlers - we thought it was pretty then and still think so now. We set off for La Trinite in time for lunch - just a quick hour across the bay but once again the weather turned against us and by the time we reached La Trinite it was lashing rain and a howling gale. Still its now cleared up and, if the forecast holds, we should be in for a good few days of settled weather in which to explore the Golfe de Morbihan before setting off for home on 16 June.
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
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Hello Dodos! :O)
ReplyDeleteLooks like you're having fun - just thought I'd drop by and say hello from the Big blue U and the Badders crew! John I've had my racquet restrung so i'm ready when you are! LoL - take care and fair skies. Debs
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