{"id":2037,"date":"2015-06-11T22:15:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T02:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2025-02-23T19:18:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T00:18:52","slug":"france-2015-brittany-thursday-june-11-tregastel-aquarium-coastal-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/?p=2037","title":{"rendered":"France 2015 \u2013 Brittany \u2013 Thursday, June 11 \u2013 Tregastel Aquarium"},"content":{"rendered":"

More rain overnight, another dull, cloudy morning.\u00a0 As long as the rain continues to fall overnight and clear up by noon, we\u2019re good with that.<\/p>\n

A couple of months ago, Steve had discovered the Tregastel Aquarium<\/a> during some casual web surfing.\u00a0 Peter was also aware of it and we decided today was the best day to visit.\u00a0 It is a very unique structure in that it is built into the Pink Granite Coast rock formations and was once a chapel, an arms depot during the war, a home, and a museum.\u00a0 Now, it\u2019s a very interesting aquarium.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t as big as I was expecting but it\u2019s very well done and we had Florian, who popped in and out to provide educational information.\u00a0 It was a bit of a challenge to get some good photos as I couldn\u2019t use my flash, I didn\u2019t bring a tripod and, besides, the inhabitants wouldn\u2019t pose and smile.<\/p>\n

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There is an acrylic bubble built into one of the displays that children can crawl into, then poke their heads up and be right in the middle of all the fish. I kept looking at this and moving on, then looking at it again and moving on, and looking at it again\u2026 Finally, I couldn\u2019t resist my inner child and crawled on my hands and knees, under the display and poked my head up into the bubble. The pictures I took of the fish around me didn\u2019t turn out, but Steve took a video of me, which you can watch here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was still a bit early so we drove down the coast a bit, taking some more back roads, and ended up in Lannion where we stopped for a drink (un apero).<\/p>\n

Steve wanted to cook our own mussels for dinner tonight but Jan and I weren\u2019t too keen on that.\u00a0 We compromised and settled on scallops.\u00a0 Unfortunately, we weren\u2019t able to find any fresh ones in the Super U, so bought frozen ones.\u00a0 I found 3 different recipes on Google, then combined some of each to come up with my own Scallops in Cream Sauce on Linguini,\u00a0 It turned out so well, I will definitely do it again.\u00a0 Here\u2019s my made up recipe \u2013 serves 6:<\/p>\n