As I said in the previous post, we decided to visit an artist's studio in a village near Pornic. We arrived to find a sign on her door saying she was open but there was no one present. It was disappointing because we liked the paintings we saw in her window and would have liked to see more of her work. I had parked the car across the road on the village car park. As I wads loading Pauline's wheelchair into the car an elderly Frenchman spoke to me. At first I couldn't understand what he was saying. Then the penny dropped. It was the day of the referendum and he was asking if I had voted! We have postal votes so we had done this before coming to France.
We then drove north to see some places we thought might be interesting on the coast above Saint-Nazaire. These were Croisic, which is on the end of a peninsular, and Batz-sur-Mer. Both were lovely clean villages and Croisic was a small port. We had lunch in Croisic, choosing crepes made to order. We had not had fresh crepes since La Bocage in Newhey, Rochdale was open. Robert, the owner, had the special crepe/gallette rings necessary to make the food from fresh batter. We enjoyed our lunch.
Later we drifted down to the southern bank of the Loire estuary. Here we discovered some of the unique fishing huts typical of the area. They were sheds with lean-to roofs set up on stilts by the water's edge. From them projected four arms like spokes in an umbrella. When fully rigged these would have a net spread between the four arms and the fishermen would discover later what had visited their nets. Later we discovered many more of these sheds on stilts.
One small resort we drove to was visited because of its unusual name - Saint Michel Chef Chef! Like the others it was a pretty and well kept place.
That evening we sat down to a lovely meal at Villa Noe. This time we chose to eat a wok dish which was basically brochettes (kebabs) of crevettes with scallops on a bed of typical wok fried vegetables. Brother, it was tasty!
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