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<\/a>I managed to go on my couple of walks today too.<\/p>\nin the wind. Few people about, but then again that’s not a surprise. The wind is a bit strong. But there’s clearly something going on with the tides because there were people out there on the beach scavenging in the rock pools.<\/p>\n
Flexing their mussels, you might say.
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I don’t know whether they are oyster beds or mussels beds just offshore at Donville-les-Bains but whatever they are, it looked as if they were taking advantage of the low tide by doing a spot of harvesting.<\/p>\n There were a few men with a couple of tractors and trailers working around amongst the staves. You couldn’t see all that far today but what you could see came out really well.<\/p>\n With the 70-300mm zoom lens<\/a> I was able to pick out features on the Ile de Chausey that are usually enveloped in haze and spray. That view over there is probably 14 or 15 miles away at the far northern end of the archipelago. Anyone remember the film Tora Tora Tora<\/a>? And in particular the scene where as rhe Jpapanese pilots step into their aeroplanes and the sun breaks through the clouds?<\/p>\n That’s exactly what happened here just as I walked around the corner to the Place Maurice Marland and looked over the Baie de Mont St Michel. It really was so impressive. There was a lorry pulling up down in the harbour, loaded with another 20 tonnes of gravel. It’s not the first one either because there’s already quite a pile there by the conveyor.<\/p>\n That can only mean one thing – that is that Neptune<\/em> or one of her sisters will be putting in an appearance pretty soon to take it all away. It’s been like that ever since I moved here nearly two years ago and there was some talk at the mayor’s meeting last year that something was going to happen to it.<\/p>\n And here we are, with scaffolding up and the builders have moved in. This should be an exciting development once things get under way and the work advances. Back here after my walk, something else that I managed to do was to book my next trip to Leuven and my medical appointment. It’s quite exciting in that the fares are on special offer so I’ve booked my trip – 600 kms each way of which 300 each way are on a high-speed TGV – for a mere \u20ac138.<\/p>\n For 1200 kms! I bet that you wouldn’t ever have a fare like that in the UK.<\/p>\n And my room for three nights in Leuven because I’m going to stay on for an extra day and come back on Wednesday.<\/p>\n But the bad news is that round about 17:00 I started to wobble. I kept it up for about 10 minutes and then that was that. On the bed.<\/p>\n At 18:30 I briefly came round and crawled under the covers, and there I stayed until about 20:30. Totally flat out. And I would probably still be there now had I not been required to go for a ride on the porcelain horse.<\/p>\n Mind you, I did go off on a nocturnal ramble. And a welcome return to Zero. She used to accompany me quite regularly on my travels during the night but she’s not been around awhile so it was nice to see her, even if she was known during this journey by another name.<\/p>\n I’ll spare you the details though. You are probably eating your tea right now, which is more than I did because I missed my tea slot.<\/p>\n And the night was another one of those nights that was crisp and clear, and probably deep and even too, with a good view for quite a considerable distance.<\/p>\n Across the bay, the lights of Cancale were quite clear, and you could see the reflection up there in the clouds of the streetlights of St Malo. I wasn’t sure at first if it might have been one of the ferries, but on closer inspection it appears to be a trawler coming into port here at Granville on the evening tide.<\/p>\n And for once, I was able to take a fairly clear photograph of it. It’s not come out too badly, all in all. So back in my cosy little nook. Tomorrow is shopping so I’ll need to get my rest. But what with all of this rest and sleep, I’m not sure what state I’m going to be in if I don’t manage to go to sleep again.<\/p>\n<\/a>In fact the tide was quite far out and in the distance I could see that there was a lot going on.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>But even though the sky was cloudy and overcast, and the wind was quite strong, it was for some reason a beautiful day for photography.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>That wasn’t all of the excitement either.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>From my vantage point back on top of the walls, I could see that there was a lot of activity going on on the quayside down below.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>There’s a derelict building in the Place Cambernon. Apaprently it was formerly the library and meeting hall.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>I did manage to arouse myself enough for my evening walk though.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>There was a patch of light moving across the bay from the direction of the Ile de Chausey.<\/p>\n
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