St Nazaire and Muzillac

Left the 5* facilities at La Fief intending to go to St Nazaire for a night on its new Aire to do sight seeing. We stopped first near St Brevin to view the Serpent of the Ocean, a long sculpture by a Chinese artist in 2012. Its partly on the beach and part in sea depending on the tide. It's a sort of French Loch Ness monster - a lot of fuss about nothing.

Then over the big suspension bridge which spans the mouth of the Loire just outside St Nazaire. The intended Aire did not look a very inviting place to spend the night so we just parked for a couple of hours to take in the famous German U boat pens. It really is a massive concrete structure and it's obvious why it was so difficult to destroy with WW2 bombs. There's actually nothing much to see except just wander around some of the 20 submarine  moorings in the concrete 'hanger' and read the descriptive panels. You can also go up on the flat roof to gauge just how massive a structure it was and see a few places with bomb damage.

We left mid afternoon and drove along the coast through the large resort of La Baule, with its big hotel and apartment blocks. By 5 o'clock we decided to stop in the car park of the Super U store at Muzillac which also has a motorhome service point. It's a small town that has been bypassed by the N165 between La Baule and Vannes. There are several large supermarkets in a new light  commercial centre with biscuit factories etc. There are 9 French vans and us! A few years ago there were hardly any supermarkets in France and now there are too many IMHO.

After a fine sunny day yesterday we are back to grey overcast, but not windy, or cold. I think you can say the French weather has been variable. Just realised that we have not used a toll motorway for the last 4 weeks and it should stay that way.