Today I'm Taking You To Saint Suliac

Wandering Around The Cottage - August 2014 Edition - 1

In my previou post, I told you I had visited a lovely village while I was at my parents. I'm taking you there with me today.

Dans mon dernier article, je vous avais dit que j'avais visité un charmant village lors de ma visite chez mes parents. Je vous y emmène aujourd'hui.

This is a fishermen's village, but it's not on the seaside as you would expect it. It's on river banks: the river is the Rance and you might remember me showing you an other village on the same river, Léhon, which you can see here if you haven't already.

C'est un village de pêcheur, situé non pas au bord de la mer, mais sur les rives de la Rance, cette rivière que je vous ai déjà montré lors de notre visite du village de Léhon. Vous pouvez y retourner en cliquant ici si vous avez manqué cette escapade.

Today's village is called Saint Suliac. You can see it on the red spot on the map below.

Aujourd'hui je vous emmène à Saint Suliac, le gros point rouge sur la carte ci-dessus.

Here's a closer map, so you can see it's located on the river, but not far from the sea.

Voici une carte plus détaillée, sur laquelle vous pouvez voir que le village est sur la rivière, mais non loin de la mer.

My first reason to visit this village was because it's famous for its adorable old cottages. So, do you want to walk with me through the narrow streets?

J'avais choisi de visiter ce village car il est célèbre pour ses adorables maisons de pêcheurs. Alors, prêt à arpenter les rues avec moi?

My father was kind enough to come with me that day. It was nice to be able to chat while taking pictures, but it does mean that some of them aren't perfectly straight... Patience is something the members of my family don't really know.

While we admire the houses, uttering "ahs" about the colour of the shutters and "ohs" about the windows surrounded by flowers, we'll chat like friends do when they walk together, shall we?

Pendant que nous admirons les maisons, nous exclamant sur la couleur des volets et les fenêtres entourées de fleurs, nous allons papoter comme le feraient des amis qui marchent ensemble, d'accord?

 

I  know you're all expecting my story about how my mother's sewing-machine caught on fire, but I have one more amazing story to tell you...  Yes, I know it never seems to stop and still, I don't write haf what's happening here!

Je sais vous attendez avec impatience l'histoire de la machine à coudre de ma maman qui prend feu, mais j'ai encore autre chose à vous raconter avant... Oui, il se passe toujours un truc bizarre ici et encore, je n'en écris que la moitié!

On July 11th, it was just the beginning of the summer holidays for me and so I spent the morning working on a project you'll see nothing of today because it's not ready yet. 

Le 11 juillet dernier, c'était le tout début des vacances pour moi. J'ai passé la matinée à travailler sur un projet dont vous n'avez encore le droit de rien voir.

I was really tired so at 1:30ish, when Shadow came back home after his morning spent hunting mice, we both decided to have a nap in the bedroom. We could hear nothing but birds and I could feel the warmth of the sun coming into the old (needs to be changed) roof window. You know something is coming right?

J'étais vraiment épuisée et quand mon chat est rentré vers 13h30 de sa chasse à la souris matinale, on a tous les deux décidé de faire une sieste dans la chambre. On n'entendait que le bruit des oiseaux dans le jardin et on sentait la chaleur du soleil qui passait à travers le vieux velux.... Vous vous doutez bien que quelque chose va arriver, non?

Suddenly, there was a very loud bang and the floor of the bedroom seemed to shake a little while all my china was making a tinkling noise. I thought the house was going to collapse: I took my cat in my arms and rushed outside in my underwear (I already noticed we're having an unusually warm summer for Brittany, didn't I?).

Soudain, une gros "boum", puis le sol de la chambre qui se met à trembler légèrement et ma vaisselle qui cliquète. J'ai cru que la maison s'écroulait. J'ai pris mon chat et je suis sortie en vitesse dans le jardin.

As soon as we were in the garden, it seemed that nothing had happened. I went back to put my pants on and went to see my closest neighbour. She had felt nothing. I was beginning to seriously question my sanity. Maybe I had been dreaming?

Là, plus rien. Je vais quand même voir la voisine qui me dit que si elle a bien entendu comme une explosion, elle n'a rien ressenti. Suis-je devenue folle? Est-ce que j'ai juste rêvé?

Later in the day, I was driving to the supermarket, listening to the BBC as usual and there the journalist was talking about an earthquake that had happened a little before 2 pm in Jersey. I can't tell you how relieved I was to know that I wasn't crazy and that what I had felt was explained!

Un peu plus tard, alors que je conduisais direction le supermarché, la BBC sur la radio de ma petite voiture parle d'un tremblement de terre qui a eu lieu un peu avant 14h à Jersey. Gros soulagement. Savoir enfin ce que j'avais ressenti était une libération car j'étais à deux doigts de me croire folle.

The earthquake happened at sea somewhere between Jersey island and my Cottage. I read that it was an earthquake of 4.2 to 4.9 magnitude: it must seem ridiculous to you if you live in California, but it was my first one and it was pretty terrifying!

Un tremblement de terre de magnitude 4.2 à 4.9 (chaque site ayant son chiffre) a eu lieu en mer entre l'île de Jersey et mon Cottage. Cela peut sembler un tout petit truc, mais c'était mon premier et j'ai eu bien peur!

 

So, now back to our walk. Did you enjoy those little cottages? Did you find some inspiration? Did you notice I didn't give you some historical info as usual? Well, come back for the next post: I'll have pictures of the beach, the church and more!

Bon, revenons à nos maisons! Avez-vous apprécié ces petits cottages? Vous ont-ils inspirés? Avez-vous remarqué que je ne vous avais pas donné mes petites anecdotes historiques habituelles? Revenez donc la prochaine fois: je vous montrerai la plage, l'église et même plus!

Please remember not to wear flip-flops for the newt post!

Merci de ne pas porter de tongs pour la suite de la visite!

See you soon,

A bientôt,

 PS1: I know so many things happen to me, you might not believe me, so here is a link in case you don't believe me. There's a time difference because for a reason unknown to me (well, not unknown but that a historical explanation for an other post), Brittany and Britain are not on the same time.

PS2: If you're new here (welcome, I noticed a few new followers during the summer), you can find some other episodes of the "Wandering Around The Cottage" series by clicking here. There won't be an earthquake in each episode.

PS3: I'm partying!