St Quay Portrieux

St Quay Portrieux is a great big fishing port and it is hilarious watching the fishing boats because they drift and charge and carry on doing the same over and over again. St Quay Portrieux isn’t just fishing it also has nice beaches too they have rock pools and sand!

 The tides are huge! We have to climb a steep ramp at low tide at high tide it is flat.(In these pictures the tide is nearly in and then only half out - look at the height of the pilings (posts) at the side of the pontoons for an idea of the heights involved. At spring tides last week the difference was really very big.Mark.)

We explored an island that you can only get to at low tide called Ile de la Comtesse, it has ruins on it.

I bought some sausages at the market, I had to say “Un demi saucisse seche et cinq saucisses fumee s’il vous plait.”

Blog from Carteret.

It was fun to cross the channel. We saw lots of cargo ships and we had to ask one to mind out for us he said 'it's all right, there is plenty of room'. It took a long, long time, we saw loads of black backed gulls and fulmars.

Back in Cherbourg we saw a fishing boat in a dry dock drying out, there were lock gates to keep out the water. Cherbourg registers most of the local fishing boats even in Carteret. There are loads of abandoned railways running all over the city with lots of level crossings the railways mainly running to the docks so that people could board the cruise ships in the past.

Carteret has 3 beaches, they are brilliant. One is pretty much rocks at low tide and there are two sandy beaches. They have got sand dunes and one has a rocky end at low tide. It's great fun. We liked splashing in the waves with our wellies on and looking in the rock pools seeing the wildlife. There are also big pools in the sand at low tide because the sand gets all moved and ends up being loads of dips. The dog likes Frances sandy beaches too.

Today (Friday 3rd  of February), I went into a French bakery on my own and asked for 2 baguettes in French. The lady in the bakery gave me only one so I had to ask again for 2 and she got me another one.

Next stop is St Malo in Brittany.