In reception I asked if it was possible to walk into Pont Aven and they said, no, best to get a taxi, so, we walked in. It was about 2.5 mile to the pont in Pont Aven, a bit of a boring and hot walk but we where prepared with the right shoes, drinks, etc. It was well worth it, as Pont Aven is a very beautiful village, epically the small river running through, with its many footbridges and waterwheels.
We wandered through the village following the river, passed the pleasure boat trips (that we decided we would not go on), to the end of the path and then turned back, as we had done quite a lot of walking already. We didn't want to do much more walking as we still had the 2.5 mile walk balk back to the campsite. As we walk back we rethought the idea of a boat trip and as one was due to go soon, we set off at a brisk pace to catch it. When we got to the boat ticket booth, a large group of school kids was approaching and I said to Dot I didn't want to go if the boat was full of noisy children. Anyway they walked passed, so we bought tickets and boarded the boat, where a lady asked if we could leave certain seats free, as a party of school children were due to arrive. As it turns out, I have never see such a well behaved, polite group of kids in my life and anyway they got off the boat at the half way stage in the trip. It was a very pictures cruise down the river Aven to the sea, with lots to look at along the way, fantastic scenery, boat wrecks and lots of châteaus.
The boat ride as about an hour and a half and when it was over I wanted a beer, luckily the boat drops off right next to a pub. Unluckily the beer was off and we had to wait for the new barrel to be connected but it looked like none of them knew how to do it, so we just sat in the sun and let them get on with it.
After the beer we had a look around the shops and popped into a supermarket for a couple of things, also had a look at an old single track bridge before the long walk back to the campsite.
Back at the site we went over to the bar area for the evening, Dot went into the show room while I watched some football in the bar.
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