… last night, I had a decent sleep. Right the way through until the alarm went off. And even more surprisingly I managed to haul myself out of my stinking pit on the sofa at a reasonable time.
Having dealt with the usual morning rituals, I set out the table, and when Hans hauled himself out of his bed we had breakfast, together with a little more reminiscences of the past.
Hans is due to hit the road this morning so he packed up all of his things and loaded up his motorbike. And then I led him through the town, put him on the right road and wished him a pleasant journey back to Munich.
Back here, I unwound for a while and then decided to catch up on a few things that had been building up while I’d been occupied. This involved sorting out a pile of photos and dealing with a downloading project that I’ve had on the go for a while.
This took me up to a rather late lunchtime, but there was no point in going out onto the wall because it was windy, grey and miserable outside. My lizards will have to go for yet another day without their pear leavings.
After lunch, I did some tidying up. Things have been getting out of hand just now and I need to reset the bed. Everything needed a good airing too because I haven’t had the windows open for a few days either.
And then I ended up having a chat on the internet to someone in Canada, which took up a lot of my time.
For tea tonight, I started on the leftovers. And there was plenty of them too. Vegetables and a left-over burger. Tasty it was too.
After tea I finally managed to make it outside for a walk.
And although it was grey and overcast, you could see for miles.
Jersey stood out clearly on the horizon. It’s a long time since I’ve seen it so clearly. I haven’t actually done anything to enhance or enlarge this photograph – it’s just as it came out of the telephoto lens so you can see what I mean.
And you could even see the lights on the hotels away down at the base of the bay at the Mont St Michel.
But highlight of the evening was seeing, away on the horizon, the coast of Brittany all the way around maybe as far as Paimpol.
I’ve never seen that before from here. After all, it has to be about 80 kms away as far as I can tell, but cropping and enhancing the photograph manages to bring it out so that we can see it.
It was so impressive. And what was even more impressive was the fact that the telephoto lens ran out of light immediately after I had taken this photo and I couldn’t take another one.
So now I’ll have an early night and settle back down. Tomorrow I need to start packing ready for my voyage next week.
I wish that I knew where I was going.
brittany coast normandy france
ile de chausey granville manche normandy france
