Visit to French Naval Base at Brest 2012

On Wednesday last week we were taken to Brest to visit the Naval Base. We had to hand in our passports together with bags, cameras and phones. We had a tour all round this 'town within a city' and saw a variety of warships includung one with missiles. We were hoping to be allowed into the old U-boat penn (massive) but we weren't as it's now used by French submarines which reminded me of the shock I got one day last year when we were walking along the Crozon Peninsula on the side of the Rade de Brest and a submarine suddenly surfaced! I literally couldn't believe my eyes.

The tour was very interesting but it was a very windy day with some heavy squalls, so after the visit we went and had coffee and cakes at the delightful tea shop just off the main street. Very, very nice...