Rainy and not Rainy Sunday in Normandy

^{Weather predicted 30% chance of rain on this Sunday. I look across the bay and see the Old Town shrouded in fog. The rough sea in varied shades of green is moving in; the serious rain showers come and go. I’ve no idea} if the winds are 16 mph as weather channel forecasted. Blue sky is trying to come through and then hides behind the clouds.

Mimi will take me into the Brocante while she goes up in the Lighthouse on the Roc, at the end of the Old Town which we visited on Wednesday. I’ll probably not be able to go into the Lighthouse, as I am not French. If a friend of Sebastian’s were there, perhaps I could go up, but he is sick….

This weekend is Les Journees du Patrimoine in France to celebrate their heritage. All the towns have a number of different things planned. That was why we were able to enjoy the wonderful Gospel concert last night in the church of St. Jean with “testimony of eleven centuries of history” in the village of Saint-Jean-le Thomas. Sonya Pinçon was the leader of the eight singers and one pianist. All the songs were sung in English; most were unfamiliar, but they did sing some like “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”. It was a real hand-clapping event!

Now it is pouring, and the rain comes at the house in sheets like a New England northeaster! Sitting at the dining room table, I can watch the rain from the sunporch window. Maybe my walk around the Brocante is not such a great idea! Well, I have another pair of shoes when-NOT if-my shoes get wet! Now a small patch of blue sky has come out again. The rain has let up some, but the howling wind moans on. Yet people walk and run by the house on allee de la corniche….

I went to the very sad Brocante with (luckily) few options, as there were maybe twelve vendors. Any Quimper they had was either cracked or chipped; nothing was worth staking my life on getting it home in one piece! Mimi and Chantal had waited in line to visit the lighthouse, but then it was closed before they could visit. This afternoon there will be an organ concert at the church as well as a talk on the Granville Newfoundland link. In French it says My poor, very awkward translation says, “Once upon a time Newfoundland from Granville”. Mimi translated it as, “ Once upon a time, the people from Granville going to Newfoundland". The concert was a choral and organ concert in the grand old church. The rain stopped briefly, yet another shower followed; I stopped at Mimi's to post my update. Hard to be believe that my time here winds down, as I plan for Prague on Thursday and then on to Vienna next Sunday!