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Pyrenees Trip – Day 3

Wednesday, 18th July, 2007 The wednesday was spent moving around the Brittany/Normandy border area. We took breakfast in the farmhouse, a big table was prepared for the handful of guests staying there. There was some really gorgeous jam available for the croissants. We began by taking a trip to Mont St. Michel, and climbing up the Mont to [...]
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Pyrenees Trip – Day 2

Tuesday, 17th July, 2007 We were up and away on Tuesday. The plan was to go to a small place just inside Brittany, we were staying just west of Pontorson, in a farmhouse called La Costardiere – which was a few miles from where I camped a few years ago. On the way we stopped in [...]
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Mont St. Michel

Work on the Mont St. Michel silting problem has begin Mont St. Michel is off the coast of Normandy (near the Brittany border) and silt has been gradually filling the bay it’s in. The plan is to add a dam and filter the sediment from the water, so that as the tide retreats, clean dam water [...]
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