Tuesday 4th June 2019

This morning the van door locking problem seemed to have resolved itself. We serviced the van before leaving Vitre,

We travelled south to visit the Roche aux Fees - the rock of the fairies. We presume this to be the remains of an enormous tomb from the neolithic era.

This prehistoric megalithic structure is absolutely enormous.

The size of the stones used to construct this are on a par with those at Stonehenge.

This appears to have been the entrance. It is thought that the stones would originally have been covered by a mound of earth.

The scale of the monument and the effort and coordination which must have been involved for neolithic people to have constructed this implies a level of very strong social cohesion and very sophisticated engineering skills.

There was a party of French school children and their teachers visiting the monument at the same time as us.When they found out we were English they were very keen to practise their English language skills with us. Their English teacher who was with them seemed quite  pleased with their efforts to converse with us!

We turned west and moved on to the village of Paimpont in the middle of a forest. We parked at the village aire de camping cars. It costs 4.70 euros per 24 hours to stay here. This is the view out of the sliding door on the side of our van.

The aire is on the road of Merlin the Magician!

We walked into the village centre past this beautiful lake.

Here's the Abbey.

Another view of the Abbey - this time end on.

This is the village square.

Things are generally on an Arthurian theme round here!

The sign outside an eatery.

I'm not much of a scholar of Arthurian legend  so I can't tell you how King Solomon fits into all this. Any ideas?

However I do get the relevance of the Street of Sir Lancelot of the Lake.

Back at the aire Ann has been feeding the local sparrows.

A couple has turned up with a folding caravan and five dogs. We phoned our friend Judy. I think she would love it here.

Today we travelled 70 miles (113 kilometres). We are at N48.02354 W2.17043

Paimpont    Street View