Autumn….Celebrating 4 years in France, Journées de patrimoine, calm at the port, and getting ready for a huge vacation with Calla!…and Jane and Blanca!

Autumn has finally arrived and we are experiencing nice, cool, dry, sunny days but with enough rain to have the grass green up and grow again after a long, hot, dry summer.  French Class will begin in November and Conversation Group has been busy with many fun outings  including 2 Breton Resistance museums and an excellent British film (in French) The Lady in the Van.  We also visited several sites during the Journées de patrimonies including a water mill near La Foret, a museum of the former steel mill, the faïence museum in Locmaria,  and the Hennebont fortress. Here is the website for the patrimony days  http://journeesdupatrimoine.culturecommunication.gouv.fr  

We have done lots of driving these past 4 years so we are awarding our little car 4 new tires for our upcoming trip!  We are so excited that we will see Calla in 8 days, will get to visit my former German tutor and her family in Liestal, my friend Blanca in Zurich and also be joined by Annapolis friend Jane.  

Old water mill renovated from ruin

Faïence Museum in Locmaria - love the writings

Great frame with grapes (look closely) at Locmaria Garden in Quimper

One of the Vendee Globe boats in Lorient for an Expo before November race