So day 8 sees our last day in Rennes. The children woke up early this morning, there seemed to be a lot of movement on the site today and perhaps the noise had disturbed them.

I’ve found a coule of UCB’s (unidentified camper an bruises) as I always get… I just don’t know where they come from!

We had breakfast and got all the bedding washed ready for the arrival of daddy in 2 sleeps. I realised I’d not had a shower in a couple of days, and hadn’t looked in a mirror for a bit longer, so took the appropriate action and we packed up a picnic and headed of to a place called Roche-aux-feux, the fairy rock. These rocks are so called as it was believed that the varied out the. There to prove fairies existed.

As penny is a fairy, we thought it only right that we pay the place a visit. It’s kind of like stonehenge without the hype. It’s a megalith (which means big stone, literally) that they have dated back to Neolithic times, and it’s around 5000 years ago. As man started to evolve they started keeping animals and getting crops off the land, the thought are that they put some people inside the rocks as a kind of tomb, not buried or anything but laid in there. I the same way as stonehenge, well similar, the winter solstice sun rise rises exactly between the opening of the monument. The headiest of the stones is calculated to be 45 metric tonnes and they reckon they had to move the stones 3 miles on logs of wood…. And it may have taken about 400 people to pull! (Me and penny think that the fairies putting it there is a much more interesting story anyway!

After we had a great look around and climb about, we tried a picnic (although Fraser had the tantrum of the decade which somewhat spoilt lunch!) then headed home just in time for the sun to come out. After Fraser had a sleep, and penny and grandad headed out to buy bread, we explored the par we are staying on and found a great park, a bar/brasserie on a lake with pedelo’s…. So we let grandad take the scamps out for a pedal and mum and I sampled a wine!

A sunny evening is ahead of me, with a bbq, and clean sheets in the bed!

Hurry up stew, we are waiting for you! 2 more sleeps!