Since yesterday was a long day of driving, today will be a day in our little town of Duoarnenez. Remember those boating museums? Well, today was the day.
The first boating museum is indoors, and includes actual boats of various types, with videos and audio descriptions. It had two temporary exhibits as well, one on survival at sea with at least three movies and another on sardine finishing and canning, ditto. For a pretty modest sized museum we clocked four hours, and were still not done, but lunch was required. The best I thought was the sardine fishing section – showing old film of the ladies cleaning, cooking and preparing the cans of sardines for processing. They wore wooden shoes, and even in color films from the 1950’s they continued to wear the lace “coiffes” this part of the world is known for.
The second museum is the museum “aflot” -- afloat. The museum is rumored to have 40 boats, but it looked more like a dozen, of which five were available for viewing. There was much climbing around up and down each of the boats, most of which contained displays and historical videos showing the actual boat in use. Fascinating, but tiring. Back to the hotel and its restaurant.
The first boating museum is indoors, and includes actual boats of various types, with videos and audio descriptions. It had two temporary exhibits as well, one on survival at sea with at least three movies and another on sardine finishing and canning, ditto. For a pretty modest sized museum we clocked four hours, and were still not done, but lunch was required. The best I thought was the sardine fishing section – showing old film of the ladies cleaning, cooking and preparing the cans of sardines for processing. They wore wooden shoes, and even in color films from the 1950’s they continued to wear the lace “coiffes” this part of the world is known for.
The second museum is the museum “aflot” -- afloat. The museum is rumored to have 40 boats, but it looked more like a dozen, of which five were available for viewing. There was much climbing around up and down each of the boats, most of which contained displays and historical videos showing the actual boat in use. Fascinating, but tiring. Back to the hotel and its restaurant.
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