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Europe » France » Brittany » Saint-Nic September 4th 2010

Another bonus. Though the day started with a layer of thin cloud across the sky by lunchtime the sun had burned most of it away and the ‘20% precipitation’ which was forecast didn’t. We hopped onto the scooter and went to the nearest supermarket in Plomodiern first thing as carelessly had run out of a few essentials. Impossible to manage without kitchen roll in a motorhome. While we were there we stopped for a coffee and then, realising there was a marriage taking place in the church, we waited until the guests and eventually also the bride and groom emerged. Later, back at the campsite, we heard the wedding cars driving past with all the horns blaring. After lunch we went for a walk a couple of miles along the beach directly in front of the ... read more
Pentrez beach
Pentrez beach
Pentrez beach

Europe » France » Brittany » Saint-Nic September 2nd 2010

Left our rather lovely spot on the cliff tops above Quiberon and moved further up Brittany to the Finistere coast. We tried, several times, en route to stop for a walk round the picturesque towns and villages we passed through, Hennebont (lovely name that), Qimperle, Chateaulin but didn’t manage to find anywhere to park. Lots of car spaces but nothing big enough to accommodate the length of our 7metre Tandy. Nearly managed in Chateaulin but the big parking spaces were all already taken as the fair had come to town. We did manage to stop in one village but unfortunately we couldn’t then find anywhere to go for a drink. A bar would have been handy but inexplicably we couldn’t find one. We gave up and went straight to our campsite at Saint-Nic, right on the ... read more
Chateaulin
Sunset at St-Nic (3)
Sunset at St-Nic (1)




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