21st, we took train to see his mum. Can hear from phone that she is so excited . Only 2 hours by TGV . Arrived nantes, rent a car went to his mum home, first time I go there, Edith is so happy, she saw George's more than Nobel which is 300meter away . She has a beautiful home , the collection is amazing , lots of Chinese collection, she believes she was Chinese in past life . We definitely connected, her garden full of nice flowers, for a 70 years old lady. She lives very well .
Our seashell made e cloth so smelly, got a chance to open suitcase under the sun to remove the smell . Went to see Nobel after lunch, Natalie is wired as we did not call before show up . George's said if he call , she will say no anyway, better just go. It is a strange relations family, like other French families .
We went on road from 6:30 to morlaix -- Bretagne area , home of seafood for France, once upon a period in history , Bretagne is the Center dispatch of seafood on whole Europe . It established a fresh truck logistic systems combined with platform for transit, France is 1200km long and 1000km wide. The logistic made it possible for delivery fresh seafood to everywhere in 24 hrs, that is why French meal becomes the most delicious in the world .
Bretagne is a special area, west coast of France where ocean meet mountain and land , rich seafood resource , rain 4 month of year. Easy to grow everything , forecast. Ocean, field, farmed cow . Most famous is sailer here, as boat has to sIl between stone and rock to ocean, every sail here has high skills of operation the boats . People here make living with sea . Formed tough and Caesar tried to uniform the whole Europe, but fail as Bretagne people fight so hard for trying to be independent and no one can control this piece of land, I am total surprised to see this area of Franc, it is a mixed between German styled French, very different ,
Morlaix has a bridge in downtown , right above some building I saw this bridge befriend in movie . Very nice to see it in my own eyes. We arrived town Monday , April 21st, Easter .
Hotel is over 200 years old, still very solid, high ceiling, nice wood, carved Jesus on it, very religious area, walked on street in day time, it is so quiet, no body, I felt so wired and even a little scared. Downtown , no one, on daytime, Monday. Not even music, neither bird noise, really Jesus cris, never ever see a town like this, feel like a nuclear leak or something, everyone running away with no time take anything,
Building style is so unique, heavy roof, 6-7 ton of stone was used as roof. Image how solid this house beam is . Big piece of wood cross over the surface of the house. Wood in different colour . Very Obvious, but all same parents, neatly and tidy . Striking . all made of stone, nice style , meticulous . I felt the strict and seriousness from the building . Most road is in stone , feel the heavy history in here.
Saw so many castles , like in Disney world, Walter Disney must saw all these castles and love them also. Field grand is bark brown , yellow flower cover the field with free grass they grow for caw, very nice photos .
Next days we drove to Some area in west coastal village. Carantec is home town of Pierre yve. We booked 2 nights there.
22nd, meeting with supplier, lunch with Estal at Roseff, new sales girl for us . Afternoon, kept visiting another one. All the places are about 20-30 min, drive, very similar, all have nice stone house and same church. Night, arrived Carantec,
Only 1800 residence in this village, retirement place, rich, cam smell old money. Big beach , many million dollar home around . Castle style home, all stone, road inside village is so small, barely fits one small car, I will definitely ruin my car if I were driving, hotel is ocean front, we got best suit with a balcony facing ocean, very nice view, we all tired, finally can rest, even no obvious jet leg.
Supper in Pierre step father place, 1.2 million euro mansion with ocean view , huge, nice style, Stone home . Very beautiful . Ate deer fillet for supper. So full. Finish at 1:00. Back to hotel found out all door locked, wake up lady, find the code to come in, but later found out iced is right printed in the key.
23rd, meeting started at 11:00, went to Pierre aunts company , found a best partner to work of course, visited intermarch seafood distribution Center for 5000 supermarket, huge, very impressive. Rain today, do not feel good, our body was stuffed with too much food, really start to pain. No breakfast and lunch made us so bad mood. We decided to have Royal lobster for supper. Michelin 2 star Restrauant located inside our hotel , the best Restrauant in this area , it was full ! Chef from Michelin 2 star made a special meal base on our requirement, really feel special . Of course bill is special too, over 1000 euro for 5 . Just one Maine course . We chat and talk till 1:00am again .
24th, went on road, we leave Carantec to Nantes , fly to London . Today is sunny, blue sky, Carantec is so beautiful , there is also a market today . We visited it, almost every town people are here but I am the only none local. An old guy yield : birth control , many times after he seeing me,
Market here is big and nice, so many food. Smell fantastic . Can not help to buy the meat and sausage to eat. Them sat next to church for the tea, enjoy sun, anywhere I go, sun made big difference . Sun makes me so happy. Like a bird, no sun, I will be so easy to upset.
Drive 3 hours arrived Nantes , return the retail car, took easy jet to London . 3 hours fly, arrived late afternoon. I never like Heathrow airport , always a mess. This time is the same . Waited at immigration for 1 hr, custom office busy to chat and doing slowly, line is so long and no one care, they put a special zone in middle to HELD problem people . Very races. I do not like the people waste time of the others. I knew I will have issue with them, my turn, is a fat trouble officer. She has tone's of question about me and retain me at the special zone . I got out later. Hotel is ok . We interview alex at 8:00pm, a guy willing too be late ago save money for interview. Anyway , we decided to go together visit plant tomorrow .
Friday , 25th, Wake up 5:30 am, went to see fish market, then, took train to am seafood , plant is so far, 3 hrs by train. Train ticket is so expensive, really do not know how London resident make it. One way ticket over 200 pound, average income here is only 2000-3000 pound per year, government let some big company monopoly the train price. No one can afford to take train to work .
London was rain and cold. Appointment is at 1:00pm, no lunch till 3:00, I starts to upset : business killed my health .
Back to London, we are so tired, he went to sleep right away No supper. I ordered kid menu for room service. A rough day .
Saturday, I found a ticket can go back Halifax early, maybe it is because I really do not like London, I suggested to leave one day early . George's choose an very nice restaurant close to hotel -- oyster bar, we ate so full . First good meal in 3 days. Left london to New York . Connection flight is Sunday 1:00pm, we are very happy we can come back early .
Sunday, 27th, arrived airport 10:00am for noon flight , found out flight cancelled. Ridicules united air told us it is weather and UA is the only airline cancel the flight, we spent about $900. Each, to buy ticket fly back to Halifax via Toronto . Arrive at middle night still . Better than stay in New York, I want to be back home, had a nice trip. Finally arrived home at April 27th, middle night 12:30am.m
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