Super pics, Derek, looked like a fabulous trip.
The views of the U-boat pens were particularly interesting and poignant. The RAF put a lot of time and effort into "gardening" i.e. laying mines off the coast of Lorient to try to keep the U-boats at bay. My wife Ann had a relative who was shot down and killed, at the age of 21, near Lorient while piloting a Hampden on one of these gardening sorties. He was an only child, Canadian born of Scots parentage, who lived in Toronto and he had volunteered to serve in the RAF because of his Scots ancestry.