Caen to Roscoff (7th and 8th April)

Friday morning exploring Caen before the long journey to the ferry port village of Roscoff, way out west in Brittany.  Caen was great - we found a market, first real market we've experienced in France and it had stalls and stalls of everything.  Pastel de Nata pastries (Portuguese custard tart) my favourite, every sort of seafood still wriggling, cheese, vegetables, cooked food, books, etc.

Long train to Roscoff via Rennes where we picked up our suitcases in exchange for a Caramel Koala.  We figured that a Caramel Koala would be good universal currency.


Roscoff is a nice place.  Ferry port is on one side of it and clearly contributes to the flow of people through the village and the many restaurants with English-speaking friendly menus.  But still the same sort of beautiful French village experienced all across Normandy and Brittany with its exceptional patisseries and beautiful houses and friendly people.  Walked our legs off once again, saw boats coming in laden with crabs and witnessed the fun of the unloading and filling crates full of the crawling things.  Nice big shiny brown crab for 6 Euro ($9) per kilo sold live on the jetty direct from the boat.  Wonder what similar crab costs in Aus?

Roscoff harbour at low tide, imagine the water up to a few metres from the top within 6 hours.
Note the really interesting bell tower of the church on the right, though probably too hard to see in this picture.