Horses for courses

 It rained a little in the night and we had a slow morning but then went to see the National Horse Stud for Brittany. I'm not much of a horse guy but the working horses were very impressive in their muscularity. Unlike the compere. 8^)

Must have been a German position on 7th August judging by the bullet holes. (See below.)

Just look how solid that fella is!

Our MC. 

Dressage

Not a horse

After a wander around the grounds (an old nunnery which had all the ground floor converted to stables at some point but is now abandoned), we went through the town museum.

Bomb fragmentation left its mark on this building in town

Model of the old town and the first bridge. 

The old pottery is no more and the ground is now a large empty lot. Reggie was parked around the river where the light rail line disappears.

 The town has had 9 bridges (including the rail viaduct) over time with 3 in place at the moment. The rubble we saw yesterday was indeed that of a bridge blown by the Germans, though they had built another earlier in the war. A span of the viaduct was also blown, but whether by Germans, French resistance or Allies wasn't clear.

Much of the town was flattened by the Allied bombardments, but this was a survivor. It appears that American units entered the town on the 7th August '44 but the Germans blew the bridge so the Yanks pulled back to Lochrist where we were yesterday, and the Germans didn't surrender until May '45. Doesn't make sense on a map but I'd need to read it up.

The museum had lots of stuff on the river port, the industries, and the day to day life of Hennebont, so well worth the visit. They even had bagpipes though they had no pipes, no chanter and the blowpipe was in the chanter's place! Sassenachs.

Even though it was late afternoon we decided to move on. We are now surrounded by neolithic megaliths, part of the Carnac alignments. There are around 3000 stones in massive arrangements dating back to 4000 BC. They stretch for about 4 km, so there's plenty to see though access has been restricted recently to much of it.