A day at the beach

After far too much rain of late, we finally had a day of sunshine an little while back (although the wind blew), so we took the girls to the coast for the day. We had a lovely lunch of galettes (savoury pancakes) and crepes at Le Croisic, a lovely little harbour town, and then went to the beach for the afternoon. Managed to find a fairly sheltered little beach and off we went rock pooling and collecting shells. It was great to get away for the day, have a change of scene and spend some time with the girls. Then Adrian, who just happened to have brought a large bucket with him, went off collecting mussels (and I found a clam). We took them home in our new and spacious estate car (what a joy to have a car with room to move inside and space in the boot to put loads of unecessary stuff in). Then the following evening Adrian cooked them up and we ate them with a bit of french bread. Am pleased to report that they were very nice, very sweet and I think all better for having been free!