Cherbourg to St Malo cycle tour, part 2..

I don't know what variety of cider apple this tree was....
but I liked the look of it.

After a dodgy journey through Avranches, I found myself in the
bay of Mont St Michel. A lovely cycle journey. I spent the night
near here, the eastern corner of the bay. I ate local grilled lamb
and drank local cidre that night
Heading west towards St Malo, as pleasant a day's cycling as I ever enjoyed with constantly
changing vistas across the salt marches and flat agricultural land towards the marvellous
mount, I stopped for a picnic and some more local cider again-its all right, its only 5% and I
had a good rest before moving on. Of course I wouldn't have touched the Calvados at
lunchtime.

Here is a mobile still with Mt St Michel and the flat agricultural land in the background
The final picture of a shepherd driving his sheep on to the salt marches towards the Mont St
Michel was I thought quite special. Please copy and distribute any of my pictures freely, with
acknowledgement, if you like. I'll put some more pics up from this cycle tour if I can find time.

You can have a really great car or bicycle ride through northern Normandy and Brittany
country with so much to see: cider is the drink of the region and apple and pear orchards
make up much of the distinctiveness of the landscape. So what have the French got right
that we've got wrong?

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