What a delight to arrive in the northern coastal region of Brittany and to be met at the train station by a friend we met in Australia. Diane was a gap student at Wendy’s school and she has invited us to stay at her home with her parents. We are welcomed like family and warmly embraced into a charming home.
Dinner at the family table begins with vegetable soup
made with radish leaves, main course is farm raised chicken broiled in tomato
and served with French lentils. Dessert is homemade lemon meringue pie.
Somewhere there is also time to savour three wonderful cheeses from various
regions of France plus some homemade apple cider. Delicious! Thank you,
Corinne.
Richard is delighted to meet his host, Frederic, a
fellow organic gardener whose strawberries, raspberries and gooseberries are
sweet and flavoursome.
The day ends with a walk around the walls of the old
port city of St Malo. The statues and monuments of local heroes, who made their
fortunes as pirates, make sense to Aussie travellers used to the adoration of
bushrangers. On cue a magnificent tall ship sails into the harbour as the sun sets
across the Atlantic at about 10pm. 
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