Full English Brexit

St Malo to Avranche - 75km

I will spare you the description of the aroma of our little cabin as we arrived in St Malo but it was reminiscent of the Cheese restaurant we visited last night!

We quickly got up and visited the ferry self service restaurant and did a quick survey of the proportion of passengers who were eating the full English breakfast.  Out of those we counted how many were British and how many were French.  We felt this would be a good indication of who was in favour of leaving Europe (with the hypothesis that British people eating a full English would probably be more nationalistic and would vote to leave).  The results were that British people were split 50/50 but almost no French people would want Britain to stay in Europe because they weren't eating any English breakfast!   By the way, I had fruit salad and a croissant and therefore must favour staying in and Peter had two fried eggs and a piece of toast, suggesting that he must be undecided.  That may be as scientific as we get!  Certainly no French people on the ferry seemed to want to 'hug a Brit'.

The weather was cool but sunny.  David was rather late at the meeting point.  He had some lame excuse about his alarm being set for the weekend setting but he should have got up at a weekday time despite the fact that today is a Sunday.  Do you see what I mean about a lame excuse!

My hat is always at a jaunty angle.  We obviously put David in the shade.

We had a good start on our bikes along the coast.  We decided that our lunchtime would be Mont St Michel.  We had been here on a previous cycle trip two years ago.  It is still stunning.  We had our first lunch out.....very civilised.

The interior of the Abbey was very large and imposing but we thought it would benefit from a bit a decent furniture, some tapestries and a good lick of paint.  

The rest of the ride to Avranche was very much against the wind with some long steady climbs, especially coming into Avranche.  We are starting to come across references to the Second World War.  The hotel we are staying at is the Hotel Paton in Place de Paton, named after the American General Paton. 

I think the tank is the 'Army Surplus Special' that was in the Wackey Races driven by Sgt Blast and Corporal Meekly.  

The hotel is a 2 star, maybe because Paton was a two star general.  It is adequate for our purposes.  David and me are snuggling up again in  double bed.  It's nice to 'bond' again.  We shared a double bed till I was 7 years of age.  Sorry for giving too much information.

Sunday nights are usually very quiet in France but we will go out and see if we can find somewhere to try a verre du vin.