Sunday morning we have explored the alternate legend of the death of King Arthur. It seems that both Arthur and Guinevere retired to this locality , but Merlin required that they live on opposite sides of a stream. Arthur flouted this restriction and got sucked into a whirlpool. Guinevere tried to save him but she drowned too. Their resting place is this rocky gorge.
We clamboured up a path leading to the top of the escapement not altogether inaptly called Rue de Calvaire. Other tourists were making a more direct ascent.
Picnic lunch of baguette, and cider apples from our farm house, was taken at the Fosse Arthur lake: we scrutinized the waters for a hand holding a sword, and indeed the waters did part, but it may have been a carp. Hot chocolate on the terrace at the Fosse restaurant while contemplating fish in the babbling brook readied us for transition to compleat angling that even Walton might approve.
A more substantial monument nearby is the Abbey of Lonlay, established in 1020 by one of West France's most well to do families, substantially damaged by fire in 1530 and 1560 and never fully restored.
Late in the afternoon our host Ken took us to his private lake, and with expert tuition and beginner's luck Tony landed a 2kg+ carp. It was restored to its friends and relations, but as compensation for lack of a trout dinner, Charlotte, his wife, encouraged Wendy in the kitchen garden and our supper includes a parsnip, carrot and beans lately thriving in natural situ.
We clamboured up a path leading to the top of the escapement not altogether inaptly called Rue de Calvaire. Other tourists were making a more direct ascent.
Picnic lunch of baguette, and cider apples from our farm house, was taken at the Fosse Arthur lake: we scrutinized the waters for a hand holding a sword, and indeed the waters did part, but it may have been a carp. Hot chocolate on the terrace at the Fosse restaurant while contemplating fish in the babbling brook readied us for transition to compleat angling that even Walton might approve.
A more substantial monument nearby is the Abbey of Lonlay, established in 1020 by one of West France's most well to do families, substantially damaged by fire in 1530 and 1560 and never fully restored.
Late in the afternoon our host Ken took us to his private lake, and with expert tuition and beginner's luck Tony landed a 2kg+ carp. It was restored to its friends and relations, but as compensation for lack of a trout dinner, Charlotte, his wife, encouraged Wendy in the kitchen garden and our supper includes a parsnip, carrot and beans lately thriving in natural situ.
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