We made it!!

We thought it would be 800Km, it was 1035...
We thought it would be flat all the way... it was hilly!
We thought it would be sunny... it was mostly rainy!
We thought it would be fun... actualy it WAS :D

A special place

This place became special for one reason: This is where we crossed the 1000Km mark!

The Mont Saint Michel

Arriving to Mont Saint Michel delivered us an amazing set of emotions. It was one of the last locations we had planned to visit, it was merely half day away from our final destination, and it is an absolute magical place. Around one kilometer into the sea, emerges a city with an outstanding cathedral dominating the peaks of the island. We had seen it before in pictures, but to see its silhouette many kilometers away just sparkled a rush of adrenaline into our brains and legs. We simply could not stop until we finally reached it and left absorbed by its magic. The empty natural surroundings further enhance this feeling and approaching the rocky wall structures and passing through them to the inside was a unique majestic feeling.

Camping

 

Camping sites expose people. While hotels have the ability to abstract the person to what the person wants to show when outside the room, this is virtually impossibe in a camping site. During this trip we had the opportunity to say in quite some campings and observe a lot of different people. Provided a piece of land to stay, we saw people with only a simple roof above their heads for sleeping, all the way to the ones who literally brought a full house with them. The later was really obvious when a family parked next to us on a TIR truck converted to a mobile home. The mobile home was just like a full house, except for the wheels which gave it the ability to change its location. We wondered about the purposes of this kind of traveling. It allowed the individuals to stay in their absolute comfort zone while in a very careful and controlled manner peaking out to the region and people to where they moved the house. A full dependency on the everyday life comforts while still going to some other place. A way to protect their privacy and not expose themselves so much to the surroundings is what we guessed they were looking for. Traveling can be an amazing way to meet and feel different local cultures and it requires the surrendering of some of our comforts. These can be changes of location, habits, language, family, sleeping bed, cooking, reading... all things we incorporated into our daily routine and defined as established. It's up to each one of us to find the compromise of how much we want to feels and how much we are willing to expose.

Daring to be different

This brave flower dared to be different. It grew where it was not supposed to grow, away from the protection of its natural habitat and companion plants. As its unique beauty radiating from its hostile surroundings inspired us, we share this picture here for you!

Windows of Caen

We saw these two windows in one of the streets of the Caen city. This triggered some thoughts, first over the reasons of just creating a wall in place of a window, and over the two choices if those rooms belong to two separate rooms. One, the one with the bars giving you visual access to the outside world, and the second one, completely isolating you from the outside world. Which room do you think would make someone happier, providing that someone spends all its life in it? Both confine one to a limited space, and one of them does not present any more than what it actually is, a nice room, while the other gives you the exact same thing, with a glimpse of what life could be (but is not for you, with the bars stopping you from reaching it).

Vire

Vire, a hard to reach city once again away from the coast. A 94 Km day which left us absolutely knocked out, but closer to our destination. If no surprises happen, by the end of the day today we should reach Mont Saint Michel!