Leaving the overnight ferry at Ouistreham, went for a coffee and a walk around the harbour at Courseuilles, then decided it was time to go and have a look for these two stones, which I found recently added to the Portal by Rida.
From the maps, it looked easiest to find these stones by going to Thaon (tremendous ancient church "lost" down by the river) crossing the river to the east, then driving up a farm track from Barbieres.
The plan sort of worked, and after a mile or so along dirt track between freshly ploughed and sowed fields, the first of the stones, and then the second of the stones can be seen across the fields to the left. But this morning, everything is soaking wet, and trying to find a way across the fields to the stones would have been knee deep in sodden sticky mud.
I was content for now to have seen both of these stones (and is there bits of others?) across the fields, and to have got pictures of some sort. Can always have another visit at another time. So now on to the ancient church.
Thursday 22nd December 2011.
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