Back home now after a couple of weeks touring Brittany.
We started at L'Aberwrach on the 1st of September where we celebrated our wedding anniversary with a delicious meal at le Vioben, an excellent restaurant renowned for it's seafood.
This is a sketch drawn while we were walking along the footpath by the edge of the river, I haven't added the blue of the water or the pale green hills in the distance as I wanted to concentrate on those wonderful tangled pine trees.
The path was lined with all sorts of plants like brambles and bracken but my eye was taken by the velvety looking sloes and the nibbled greeny grey leaves. I used to gather these inedible berries to make sloe gin but as we haven't finished drinking the last batch from 2 years ago I thought I would leave them for someone else; I also believe in only taking what you need from nature, not over collecting just for the sake of it!
From L'Aberwrach we drove on to Locronan, designated 'une petite cite de charactère' by the French tourist board. The campsite was on the edge of town up a winding hill road and we were allocated a plot with a fabulous view through the front window which I couldn't resist drawing as I sat at the table in the morning. I could see across the valley to the hills opposite with their éoliennes (wind turbines) turning slowly in the distance.
As always I took some sewing supplies with me and stitched this picture postcard view over the next 3 days. The background is a printed patchwork fabric perfect for this kind of work and then I layered up organza and other scraps as well as some of the confetti patchwork I prepared before we left home. I used a mixture of threads and yarns to depict the trees and leaves and chain stitch around the edge for a border.
In the mornings we visited the town to see what all the tourists came for and to have a refreshing beer before climbing back up the hill to camp. The walk was very pleasant through the woods with glimpses of the view through the trees and then the roof tops and the old church spire came into sight.
Coach loads of people come here to see where many films have been made and spend money in the gift shops. I felt there wasn't a lot of character though, just a lot of well preserved grey buildings and hundreds of people pointing their cameras in all directions. We even overheard an American trying to persuade his wife to pose in front of the bank pretending to take out some cash!
We moved on to Benodet next but I'll have to save that till next time.
A bientot!
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