A
Road Less Travelled
'A
French Letter'
Plèhèdel.
18th
May 2016
We spent the night on the 'Aires' at
Plèhèdel. This costs €10 a night. But the 'Aires' has everything
inclusive in the price. The facilities on site are excellent and
spotlessly clean. There are 15 parking spots with plenty of room
between places. There is a small lake where there is room for a few
people to fish. The whole area is surrounded by a mixture of mature
flowering and fruiting trees. This is one of those 'Aires' where its
well worth going out of your way to visit.
I
was thinking about grandpa again, just before we set off on our trip
we paid him a visit. He seems to be getting increasingly forgetful.
It seems that as usual when we visit he gets half-way through a
sentence, then forgets where he is. I have to reminded him 'you're in
Wormwood Scrubs, Grandpa' Oh how we laugh.
The
weather has dramatically improved and we were treated to one of the
best sunsets of the trip so far. The 'Aires' is set in a very rural
location and there was abundant wildlife for us to enjoy. The better
woodland birds being a Nuthatch feeding chicks about twenty feet away
from the van. Plus a Green Woodpecker gathering ants from a nest made
mainly of a large pile of pine needles. We were even serenaded in the
evening by a pair of competing Song Thrush. Best spot of the day was
a lone Eagle flying west towards the coast.
The
next morning the weather had improved even more and by 8am it was
already 17c and getting warmer. There was a gentle breeze blowing,
so we took the opportunity and did a launderette in the facilities
block. It meant hand washing all our backlog of smalls in my case and
the not-so-smalls in the case of the Memsahib!
Later
we heard the distressing news on French TV, about the loss of the
Egypt-Air aircraft flying from Paris to Cairo, with a number of
French passengers onboard. We were reminded that the last time we
were in France on our way back home from Spain. The terrorist
shooting took place in Paris. The time before when we were on our way
to Spain, was when the Charlie Hebdo shooting took place.
Late
in the day – we decided to go shopping. A check on the Garmin
sat-nav said that there was an 'Intermarche' nearby. It seems that we
had forgotten our previous experience of the Intermarche which seems
to be the most expensive supermarket in France. It was 15 miles to
the nearest Aldi. So after investing in just the French staple diet
of beer, wine cheese and bread. If I was to describe Intermarche it
would be like our Waitrose supermarkets but on financial steroids.
Rather
than head back to the 'Aires' at Plèhèdel. We decided to move on a
bit further along the coast to Paimpol and the Pierre Loti 'Aires'.
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