I've been staying just outside a small town called Rosporden about an hour west of Vannes while we've been sorting out final apartment bits and pieces. The house here is plonked right next to a beetroot field. Today I spent a lot of time arranging utilities, I have even spoken to the water company on the phone! But apparently it isn't possible to sort out the water on the phone...
Anyway, after this I was going to go for a stroll as the sun was still out, but a bike happened to be available for me to use! So I took off down the lanes, surrounded by HEDGES (some places in France just don't believe in hedges) and trees all lovely and autumnal. There were also cornfields and a farm with a big water-castle. I think it's dangerous for me to be on a bike with a speedometer. I was going at 30kmph on an incline heading towards 40kmph when I was nearing flat! I didn't really dare go at full pelt as this bike was a lot more powerful than my own (though the breaks worked well). I now really would like a speedometer, but am slightly worried it would distract me from important things like pedestrians in my way.
It was very nice to be out in the autumnal countryside anyway. Vannes has some parks but hopefully I will get out and explore - flatmate and I have plans to go out on Western horses. It's surprisingly a lot warmer than south of England even though we aren't that far away. Though 6.30am was quite fresh the other day it has been so pleasantly warm, save one windy windy day down at the port where I had my coat on.
Today I was recommended a whole host of places in Western Brittany to go to so I plan to make that a weekend job to visit. It is strangely parallel to England in many places - I was shown a river that looks just like the Dart with all its boulders, and I am going to hunt down the Land's end equivalent and its rocky cliffs when I can get there by car. This will either be stormy and dramatic in winter, or just a bit soggy. We'll see.
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