The Day Out (by Rowan)

One day we decided to go to a place called "Rennes" In Rennes we went to an art gallery which had lots of paintings and sculptures.After that we went to a fancy restaurant called "RACINE".Our waiter was really nice. For starters we had three different foods.The first one was a tomato in a potato ball😋🤗,the next one was a cracker with a mayonnaise thing with a herb on top and the last one was a small slice of melon with a leaf on top. Next we had melon with prawns in a tomato sauce with rocket ice cream!

And then we had the nicest duck I've ever tasted. It was tender and juicy and delicious. We had it with crispy aubergine and herbs. But the dessert - YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was a caramel peanut buried in a ball of chocolate mouse with a bit of chocolate on top!It was DELISH! Afterwards we all felt stuffed so we just nibbled some biscuits.

Rowan 😊😄🍈🍗

The River (by Freya)

 

Dear everyone!

In our new home we live beside a river we've seen lots of fish and frogs .

The river is really pretty and I started my first time canoeing.

LOVE FREYA 🛶🐸🐟

Rochefort-en-Terre

In Brittany there are 22 Petites Cités de Caractère - small towns of character - and on Sunday, we went to visit one of them: Rochefort-en-Terre. It's about half an hour's drive from our base in Brittany and we had visited it a few weeks ago but spent the whole time wandering around in awe that we forgot to take any pictures, so we had to go back for another look, this time with cameras at hand!

The weather forecast had predicted temperatures of 29 to 30 degrees, so we all decided not to bring jumpers or cardigans. Unfortunately, the sun was hiding behind the clouds and it was rather chilly when we got out of the car, with only body heat and Mummy's scarf to ward off the cold!

We set off and soon forgot all about the cold because Rochefort-en-Terre is just so beautiful. At every turn, there was another charming street, another beautiful house, another burst of colourful flowers.

We followed a way-marked path that leads along a 7.5 km walk that takes in the surrounding forrest and countryside before bringing you back into the town.

The forrest walk was so quiet and peaceful and very lush and green.

There were lots of fun things to do along the way!

The path took us alongside fields of crops.

By now, the sun had come out and it was hot!

Some horses taking shelter from the sun.

We had some pretty serious house-envy along the way! We all agreed that this one was our favourite.

A couple of hours later, we arrived back into the town, and after some restorative galettes, we strolled around, feasting our eyes.

Among the many cute little shops, our favourite was that of a local sculptor who makes her pieces from wire. Birds, shoes, cow's heads, skulls, flowers, jelly-fish - all constructed from bent wires, and the result is both delicate and arresting.

We walked up to the castle at the top of the town and had a look around the grounds, inspecting the well:

 and the little chapel (check out the apparition of St Conor of Sandymount at the window):

...before finally heading home.

The Walk (by Rowan)

On Sunday we went on a walk.It was a very nice forest walk in a place called ''Rosh furr on tare.''The walk was 8 killometers long.The start was in the forest, the next bit was beside a river, and the next bit was forest again.

 


It was really fun, Daddy played a monster game with me,

and I saw a lizard!It looked like this:

When we got back to the village we had lunch. For lunch we had galettes. They were really yummy.

Rowan😄😀😁😂😃😅😆

 

A Lovely Creperie (by Freya)

One day when we were in a village we saw a creperie .

It was very nice . we ordered a galette with apples and nuts and honey with goats cheese .


LOVE FREYA   XOXOXOXO 🍯🍏🍎🐈👧

Village Life (by Karen)

The quiet life continues...
Most days, we walk to the village to buy bread, post the odd postcard, or have a coffee at the Tabac. Le Roc de St Andre is a pretty quiet little village, very agricultural - lots of houses in the village seem to have backyard chickens; we hear the roosters from several gardens as we walk past. Also, depending on the time of the day, you can hear some fairly loud moo-ing coming up to milking time.
Here are some pictures of the village:

The Church of St Andre which stands on the top of the hill overlooking the bridge below. In the second picture, if you look closely, you can see St Andre himself looking down over the river.

This is the view from the church of the bridge below crossing the river Oust.

Across the road from the church is the Boulangerie where we buy our bread (and on occasion some delicious tartelettes des fraises!).

The main street where there's a handy corner shop for buying milk and other conveniences, as well as the village restaurant where galettes and crepes feature largely on the menu.

The post office.

The tabac is on our way home and a good place to duck into for a coffee and a Coke when you get caught in a sudden shower of rain!

All is going well. Life has slowed and become quieter, which is just how we like it. And the girls (and Saoirse) are settling into country life.

Tout va bien!

The Michelin star restaurant (by Rowan)

One day Mummy, Daddy, Freya and I decided to go to a little sea side village called "Vannes" - you pronounce it "van".We were meaning to just park the car, eat in a restaurant and stroll along the sea front. But it just so happens that that day was the feast of the Assumption,and that is a holiday in France! So all the car parks were full! Even the smallest street was filled up!😒😢😣😥😫😯😪

Mummy phoned three  restaurants but they were all full. Eventually she found a little restaurant just outside Vannes which had a table for us.It also had its own little car park which was much nicer than the ones in Vannes.🚗🚙🚘🚛🚚

 

The restaurant was called "le Pressoir"and it had a  Michelin star!💥 Now "le Pressoir"was a proper Fancy restaurant with three starters and that sort of thing.For our first starter we had a tomato covered in pepper , a mackerel pate cracker , a piece of toast with Parmesan ,and a pastry with mango sauce, 😋😋😋🍱🍱🍛🍛🧀🧀🥪🥪🥐🥐🥗🥗🍞🍞🥓🥓🥞🥞🍕🍕🌮🌮🌯🌯🍖🍖🥡

I know some of that stuff sounds disgusting but it was actually really nice! 

The next course was another starter. It was this really nice potato soaked in black sauce with creamy stuff inside it and fish eggs.!

The last starter was melon cut up into balls and put in spicy sauce with flowers. I didn't like the sauce but I ate the melon. 

Next we had the main course which was chicken with vegetables for me but something different for everyone else.

Finally we had dessert which was profiteroles. Mummy and Daddy got THREE DESSERTS!!!! Not fair!!!!!!

By the time I was finished my dessert I felt like I was going to explode!

When we left the restaurant we were all so stuffed that we didn't want to look at Vannes anymore so we just got in the car and went home.

                                                                     Rowan                                                                                         😋😆😃🤣😀😁😂😅