Wordless Wednesday #13

I took these photos when we visited Fougères.

I'm not really into cars but i do admire vintage one.
These are some of my photos.Hope you like them.

If you want to see it closer here's the link.


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Wordless Wednesday #12

Medieval Castle in Fougères,BRETAGNE

from the back of Fougères Castle Gobelins & Mélusine towers.

Coigny Tower in between the forecourt & outer bailey.

Inside the little chapel,you'll see the St.Leonard church on the top hill from the door.

Gobelins tower is inside the inner bailey.The main keep.


One of the chamber in Mélusine tower..
it's really small & have access to the rampart of the castle.


Taken from the top of Coigny tower.

These are some of my shots, I took last Sunday.I wish, i could capture the feeling i felt when I'm inside. Unfortunately i can't, So, I'll include a link for you to know what it stood for, here in BRETAGNE.

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Wordless Wednesday #11

Remnant of my energy

Need a Rest .

Or perhaps....

I'll just fly.

All this photos was taken after our pêche à pied at L'ile Grande.

My last entry

of

Wordless Wednesday .

Thanks for your visit.

&

Good day to all.

Layers of crêpe:As intro

Crêpe is Bretagne (Brittany), I would playfully say, because it’s where it originates this thin pancake. It is known that the best crêpe in France is in this region. It is geographically situated northwest of France; one of its 26 regions. This region was once been free and one of the Celtic nations. The net would provide you greater information about it.

Here, I’m just imparting my personal experiences as a foreigner living here. I’m using crêpe as a title for there is so much to appreciate with this simple pancake made of wheat flour, butter, eggs, milk and a pinch of salt. It also can be served as your main meal or just a dessert. It is my personal connotation as BRETAGNE.

For years living here, I have been clicking my camera like a tourist (don’t take this bad) and I’m glad that I have not let it rest only to that. As I took my own pace to slowly acclimate myself. Though, I didn’t stop observing even with a glass barrier on my window. And the more, I see and sometimes mingle make me feel more at home. You’ll know later why.

Hope, this vague little intro would keep you following my layers of crêpe.

Wordless Wednesday #7

Guimiliau church, one of the celtic churches here in Bretagne.

Love the structure & symbols on it.

I've visited it 5 times.

Weekend @ Vitré

We passed our weekend with our friends at Vitré near Rennes in Bretagne (Brittany). Seeing the new haven of Yann and Ludivine was really great and more to it, Morvan and Hélène was there, too. - These two couples always do visit us, when they visit their parents as they further took their way to go to our place. We been always reminded to visit their place and have some feasting with them. Our reason was our old trolley but now that we have a new one. These past dues need to be paid back. As they knew, we are having three little monsters in towed. They have set a day out for them, too.

When we arrived the fête were rolling… from bonjour to handing apéros (Drink before meal) & kids recounting their history of preparation to go there & what they brought to mess-up the place, to how much they were so excited to play there was enough to warm the place. These couples, they’ve been so great to have patience hearing the endless recounts of Sophia and Gabriel. Then as Yann have been so wise showing them (kids) the games they have. Everyone was so much attentive to every word Yann told them, to have their hands on the games.

We three couple started chatting along with our apéro while we’re waiting our dinner. Everything went so smoothly and the meal was as always great, "Ludi you’ve done it again." Then after we settled the little ones, as we have planned to go out and check the bars as they live in the center of Vitré. We were having our time to discover & its night life. We were impressed how much they have in there, in comparison to ours. As we drink out night away… I can’t help admiring the city walking back to their apartment.

The old Ville just so great to see it in paved stone alley & old houses with exposed timbers panels in it façade, with some baroque painting, it called maison à colombage here. I’ve always get fascinated with this type of structural design. I never get enough of it… love staring at every detail, even some are on the way of getting ruined. They are so beautiful.

The boys have stayed sometime doing their thing, playing wii & guitar while we (girls) dozed in our designated rooms. Then, morning comes after our breakfast we took off to the park for the kids. Then see the castle there & passed to the cathedral and so on.

But what this weekend so really great, we do it altogether. The two couples have been wonderful as always. Unconsciously, they were playing to be parents to our kids. And as I’ve told them at the end, they passed with flying colors. We are surely blessed to have good friends here. "On a passé un bon weekend, grâce à vous. Encore, merci beaucoup à vous (YANN, LUDIVINE, MORVAN & HELENE). À la prochaine."

Stagnated by choice or not?

“Stagnated we are, but why? We always wait for the tide to come and carry us away, when we could have walked away. >>> Because we made our choice, here we stay or times, we disembark and go.”

Today the weather is in normal state, meaning rain, wind & gray= coldness. Perhaps, you find me sounding redundant. But it’s the fact here. As much as, we love our paysages (sceneries) we have to accept the bad side of living near the coast, specially this coastline. Sometimes, we couldn’t help hating the wetness & grayish aura that we often have to accommodate daily in our lives. The climate change really had done us all. The normal suffering has been prolonged. Not cool at all.

Now, it supposed to be Spring, we should have been outside doing our garden & walking around the coast before the tourist comes. Or I should be starting to remodel the rooms before my paint dries. But no, we are locked up inside the house and lost the motivation of revamping the rooms. And more, I’m tied to do some little indoor activities for the kids to avoid getting bored on their spring vacation.

The long weekend plan to go to England seems getting slimmer due to the weather and we’re lacking of time to book our travels. More on, D’man wants to take the road trip going there. So, long weekend won’t be sufficient to have the visiting we planned. So, I decided to stop looking for ferry’s fare. This needs rescheduling.

What left us is to pray to have decent weather to bring the kids to another region here. Discovering with them would surely be the best way to see more of France. So, where to? We have Loads of pending “I owe you a visit” to our friends.

Even last weekend we did start repaying visit. It was really great. We were blessed with good companies and beautiful sunny Sunday-Our medicine, to sustain what we have now.

Wordless Wednesday #6

Château de Costaéres , this Castle is in an islet. When low tide you can actually walk going there.When you walk through the coastline of Ploumanc'h to Trégastel you'll see it. This photo taken from Tourony beach at Trégastel.

My last entry was the lighthouse of Ploumanc’h, if you look at the other side of it the castle you’ll see. One reason that this is a touristic spots here in Bretagne due to the pink granite coastline and the castle just the icing of it.

I can’t be bore having this view. The tides & temperamental climates give it ethereal illustration. We always have been proud to show off this place to every friend who visits us.

Wordless Wednesday #5

This is one of the reasons, why I can't leave Bretagne (Britanny). This coastline of pink granite is a walking distance from our house.

Green with Envy

Still on the Storm.... Some are devastated and some are having the best of time...I can't fault them.
I went green with envy seeing this video.

Big Surf Trestraou 10-03-2008
envoyé par Suparoro

Thanks for sharing the video SUPARORO.

Wow those waves never did we have them before.They don't crumple quickly.

We often go to Plage de Trestraou specially on autumn season, because it's surfing time in our place. How in heaven's name i missed this one. Waaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!

Here it shows there always two side of the coin.

Late Reactor, we are.

Last week to be exact. We had a storm... Wind, it's 120 to 140 km/hr. It isn't unusual though, we been having it at least twice last year (I think). People here are going their way to go to the coast to watch the waves clashing to huge boulders and etc..We as well would have gone off to watch.

But we were more worried about our little girl having influenza and the shed,he built for our woods. D'man was worried that it might not resist the blow. So we have shrugged the idea to be spectators. And just do the normal routine. Him to work & me looking after my little princess. By the way,She was a bit of a whiner.

Then day goes by, normally on Wednesday Gab, my little boy should be going to his swimming class. But my friend called, telling me that the Forum where our boys go for swimming lesson got wracked. I couldn't believe that the outcome went that far. In my head, Oh non!!! I must have jinx the place on considering to go back on swimming. Its the only place here I could do my practice because the pools are heated through it I could defuse myself.

It made me wonder how hard was the hit really. So, I've started on checking on the net. & here is it. We were devastated how much damaged it have brought in our place. The beaches we proudly show-off to our visiting friends. Some cabins & walls eroded due to big splash of waves. And the bars that we patronized are also...been splashed.

Tempête à Tregastel (22)
envoyé par Breizhim

Thanks to Breizhhim for posting his video in daily motion.

Lareine & Ana remember this place?

So, with calls & visitors we been having since Friday.. they were shocked that we didn't know and bother to see the storm nor look how it was. Them, who live so far have taken the time to see it. Their eyes were a bit wider in shocked that we didn't see it which they were almost under our noses. In some notion,they must have expected that it would be the dinner talks. Us showing our gathered videos or photos at least,but none of those were presented. So here our consolation.

tempete ploumanac'h4
envoyé par kerougan

Thanks to this man taking the time to go there ,when we could have done for 5 to 8 minutes walk from our house.

As apologetic as we are, we promised that we will be more vigilant and more informative next time. We see that we have really fallen into granny stage. Only thankful that we have good friends go their way to make us more active and aware outside out shack. Candidly they are also reminding us our “you owe me” a visit.

On that, WE ARE SO GUILTY.

Wordless Wednesday #3

Château de la Bourbansais built 16th century situated at Pleugueneuc, Bretagne. This vast estate have so much things to offer. Its actually good for a family outing. Living in Bretagne give me a chance to see it.
Thought of putting the link,if in case some of you would like to visit it.

The Ruins of Tonquédec (TONKEDEG)

While I'm waiting for some positive response from my sole prospective employer. I was indulging myself looking through my snapshots. Crossing with.....

"Château de Tonquédec"

In breton, Its Tonkedeg. The Château dominates the valley of Léguer, west side of Côte d'Armor in Bretagne region. The Origin:

"Viscount Prigent, the last known Viscount of Tonquedec, marries his eldest daughter to Geslin de Coetmen. Together the two begin the story of Tonquedec’s Lords.

Geslin de Coëtmen, belongs to the family of the Dukes of Penthievre, a younger line of the Sovereigns of independent Brittany, and is the owner of Coetmen Castle.

13th to 14th Centuries: From the 13th to the end of the 14th centuries the Viscounts of Tonquedec and Coëtmen are at the crusades."

[These coloured captions were taken from a couple, who happens to have more information about Tonquédec historical lines. "Thank you for filling up my curiosity and enriching my knowledge about Bretagne." In return, I've taken the liberty to promote their site.please click on the link. ]

I vividly recall, how wonderful it made me feel touching those stones.It has proudly stood still all this time. And even with moss, they seems more beautiful to me, rather than imagining it in its stage of glory. This ruin... makes me see more than I could see in my life time. Histories have been written in every block of stones, it carries. Some historian may defer, who am I to argue...


"All i know, I can't put words to how i feel about this place...for I admire how it stood by the time ."