We had a fabulous day last week on Tine's day off, finally visiting le Marais Poitevin (the Poitevin Marshes). It's also known as la Venise Verte (Green Venice) and these photos show why!.
Our good friends Hughie & Jeanne accompanied us and we started with a scrumptious savoury pancake at Damvix not knowing that Monique's cousins once had this restaurant. Will definitely call there again!
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On to Arçais where we hired a flat-bottomed boat and guide and silently and peacefully meandered our way for a couple of hours through the man-made canal system, spotting all kinds of wildlife, including a snake (sorry Jeanne who missed it!), everything explained by our lovely guide.
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She even tried to light the gas that emanates from the sludge at the bottom, but sadly she wasn't very successful. Mind you it could have been us not too keen to lean too far over to watch! As you can see there was also a very low bridge that we had to duck to avoid banging our heads.
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As you can see all this exertion took it's toll and there's Hugh & I having a crafty 40 winks whilst the girls were visiting art-galleries.
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