Megaliths

5-11-07 BILLIERS, BRETAGNE, FRANCE: We slept fairly late and eventually got started to be stopped by a dead battery. The car lights were on for a while the night before, inadvertently, but we got a jumped quite quickly and were off, in the rain. We went to Vannes for another old city center avec cathedral and brunch. We made a short, rainy stop at La Trinité sur Mer, the sailing capital of France and saw thousands of sail boats.
Then on to Carnac for the megaliths. The stones are lined up in long rows, big stones, for miles. It is incredible that they are still there, they are older than the Egyptian pyramids, and they were set up at all. The ones in rows made me think of the cemetery at Omaha beach. Otherwise I thought of the thing Christo did in Central Park. Maybe some neolithic comedian was playing a joke on us, “The’ll never stop trying to figure it out.”

Vannes, old town

Vannes, hat shop

Vannes, ramparts

Carnac, megaliths

Carnac, more megaliths

Billiers, run aground? no problem