Early rise again as we are off to the town of Josselin to visit Chateau des Rohan a castle that has history dating back to the 11th century, where a real Duke and Duchess live. The bottom of the castle is open for the public and the top floor is the living quarters for the family. We were met by the Duchess herself! Within the castle are 4 main rooms the dining room which has sculpured panels all around the room with the Christian name of the first duke to live there wife , Herminie and the children of Duke Alain Rohan. The main drawing room also has a magnificent gold clock that was gifted to the family from King Louis XV, it can tell the time, day, month, the temperature, the signs of the zidiac and the lunar cycle! There are only 2 in the world! The other stand out room for us was the library which contains around 3000 volumes dating back to the 17th century. The garden and the grounds were also magnificent!
After the tour we drove up the road to Ploermel to visit de l’enteprise Armorinox which was a very large engineering company that specialized in commercial cooking equipment. After a short dvd presentation on the businesss we were shown around and then returned for a beautifully prepared lunch in the board room followed by a presentation from Les Kiwis!
And to finish the day a visit to museum that was founded by teaching catholic fathers for their pupils. The museum was called Horloge Astronomique it had many interesting eclectic collection ranging from rocks to animal brains but the main attraction for us was the 7 foot clock that was built in 1850 which was able to tell the time, location of planets, sunrise, sunset, moon phases and the time for any country in the planet!!! It was very interesting!
After that home time!!!
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