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Soon after we are up the milk herd patter down the lane to the milking parlour. The Dutch couple come over to say goodbye and tell Ali the shop is open this morning, so she wanders down to buy hand patted butter, honey and some fresh milk which is delicious on our breakfast cereal.
We are the last to leave the field having had as pretty and peaceful a stopover as could be wished for.
Ali has picked out an aire at the seaside but first we have to take the busy N156 around Lorient and Quimperle before heading south through Nevez and out to the little headland at Raguenez. Right on the edge of a rocky little crescent shaped bay is a line of motorhome parking spaces looking out to sea and luckily there are a couple of vacant ones. Sun sparkles on the sea as it splashes against the rugged black rocks. A few vehicles go to and from the headland hotel car park, walkers and cyclists pass by and a few dinghies on trailers rattle by but generally it's very quiet and, like yesterday, the sort of scene you can look at forever.
At 24C It's quite hazy out to sea, making the group of little islands hard to see but plenty of large sailing boats glide across the horizon.
Early evening; in the van next to us the TV goes on as Mme. is cooking. It's not intrusively loud, just tinny background noise of gameshow cheering and advertising jingles, but then Monsieur gets out with a set of bagpipes and parades in front of the vans making noises like a cat in a mangle. Now bagpipes are a dreadful sound, even in the hands and mouths of those experts who have be trained in the art of strangling an octopus, but this guy is on Screechbook Tutorial Three out of the Ten available, and has Eric Morcambe's philosophy of all the right notes but not in the right order. Nevertheless, urged on by applause from the audience of motorhomers, he presses on for over half an hour before returning to his van red in the face and breathing hard.
We can then enjoy our steak dinner and wine watching the sun dip and finally set over the bay, but even then it stay light until well after 22:00
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