There’s life in the Old Bar yet !

As I ‘peeped’ out the window during the night,and saw the heavenly starry sky, I thought- shudda brought my star spotters guides with me ..Ooops !The stars were very strong overhead, with constellations clearly in view, although yet to see any shooting stars, so back to sleep !

A glorious but cold morning greeted me (at a normal time- what’s normal?), blue cloudless skies, and a full day to meander..

I’d decided to ride around the peninsula to the Furthest point, the Ponte du Raz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointe_du_Raz a great jagged piece of rock, western facing ,across the mighty Atlantic to where I was only a few weeks ago…America !

I mistakenly thought the roads may be flatter than the Peak District of England – not so, it was up and down on a roller coaster ride as firstly I made it to the easterly point – Ponte du Van, passing roadside memorials to French people killed in the World Wars, and getting to the end point I took out some light refreshment I’d been carrying – a Power Bar from 1998 ! good enough for Scott of the Antartic I thought, good enough for Jotown ! I wondered how many adventures this had been with me and Wally ? However, it hadn’t finished yet, and slipped away down the rocks (recaptured later) so I temporarily made do with a nut bar..

The views across onto the Ocean and rocks were great, but clearly from their jagged appearance many a storm had passed this way before !

I then continued along the roller coaster,swooping down into Baie de Tresspasses –

Bay of Death…for surfers.. a great, from the looks of it surfing location with 20/30 surfers out on the Ocean , riding the waves into the beach…phew

then,as with any big downs, there’s a big ‘up’ and so up I went the other side of the bay, and onto the headland of the Pont Du Raz ,where there was an old semaphore station,and statue to Our Lady (to the shipwrecked) http://www.audierne.info/pages/capsizun/villes/plogoff/loisirsplogoff/notredamedesnaufrages.htm have a look at the story if you can translate –I can …

I had a wander round on foot,looking out to sea, 

and generally gearing myself up for the return journey, finally having the 1998 Powerbar –beautiful ! 

Then it was serious business for the return journey, non stop all the way to the campsite, up and down the steep lanes, before the real heat of the sun caught up with me… I returned to a lunchtime BBQ of steak,salad and spuds..great !

and all this for one person !!! 30 miles round trip..

A relaxing afternoon was called for,siesta   and wine for the evening, before moving further South tomorrow, having accepted a kind invitation from Kevin and Susan… more to follow..

although disaster has struck, temporarily I hope,my first weeks blogs have been removed,hopefully to be replaced…due to faults on the Blogger system-don’t panic, I shall return !