http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Brittany-/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , France , Brittany en-us Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:04:51 UTC Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:04:51 UTC I haven't put anything up in a while for two reasons One my parents were here and there were much better things to do than blog and two they didn't have internet at their place and reception is spotty in public places. SO I have many things to write about. After class on Wednesday of which I remember nothing I ran across town to see my parents. It was so great to see them actually here We http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/Rennes/blog-344079.html With the Inverter safely installed we left the campsite fully working again and headed for Mont St Michel. With no high tide due we were able to park just below the Abbey. We looked around the Abbey and lanes during the day and then wandered back up at night to discover a much more atmospheric place without the tourists and the gift shops closed you could really imagine what it would have be http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/blog-342340.html Mont SaintMichelBeginning in the 8th century as a monastery on a tidal island in the North of France honored as a UNESCO world heritage site there really isn't anywhere else in the world quiet like Mont Saint Michel. Rising above the tidal plains one can see why the archangle would have commanded such a place to be built all those years ago as the legend goes. It was totally worth burning http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/blog-339394.html Where to begin Irsquove been so involved here that Irsquove forgotten to write. But thank you friends and family who have been harassing me now itrsquos time for another update. Irsquove completely fallen in love. Well with a city. Paris is one of those places that yoursquove read about your whole life and seen on TV and thought ldquohmm the Eiffel tower thatrsquos nicerdquo http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/Brest/blog-338693.html The days are beginning to run together and I canrsquot believe Irsquove already been in France for one week. I woke up this morning to find it a beautiful if not chilly fall day in Brest. Sun shinning which I hear is rare and I have to say that things have much improved over the last few days. The heat situation is still pretty unfortunate however. When I asked my school about it they http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/Brest/blog-331567.html I don't have internet yet so I'm sorry about the lack of communication. However I've been writting a little bit to remember what's going on. This isn't quite up to date but I'll be sure to write more soon I miss you all ldquoSeven months Seven months you are in Brest I sorry.rdquo These were the first words out of the mouth of my taxi driver after arriving this morning by train. My infl http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/Brest/blog-328464.html De la plage de la plage et plus de plage...a quiberon jai encore manger des huitres et cetait bon miamaussi nous avons dormi dans un hotel de jeunnesse tres bidon bref nous etions dans une tente.aussi quand nous sommes arriver cetait bizzarre il y avait du monde habille en ninja sur des moto SimonPar contre la dame de l auberge a eu la gentillesse de me donner un sac de couchage et u http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/blog-328098.html Hier jai appris que dire salut c'est trs familier pour les Franais et que Bonjour est plus approprier...Alors bonjour mesdames et messieurs lizeurs de ce blog Rennes c'est une ville de party ou il y a un quota impressionnant d'tudiant et un phnomne spectaculaire qui s'intitule la rue de la soif... l'interprtation doit tre littrale.A Rennes nous avons t au muse des beaux art qui tai http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/Rennes/blog-328092.html We had a fairly touristfilled weekend on our trip to northern France. Our bus left Paris at 7am and we headed out to Saint Malo a city about 4 hours west of Paris. The drive was beautiful the hills were so green and all the houses were old stone cottages. Upon arriving in Saint Melo we headed down to walk in the water which was surprisingly blue. It reminded me of water I would see in southern http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/Saint-Malo/blog-326389.html allo la compagniealors stmalo c tait vriament gnial la vue sur la mer et le soleil qui nous suit dfintivement woow juste pour vous dire je suis lus bronz en ce moment que je l ai t le reste de l t mais je voudrais pas vous faire suer en a fait une super bonne bouffe sur le quai en regardant le coucher de soleil et c tait romantique qutaine a souhait et on a vue des crisss de tabar http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/Saint-Malo/blog-325710.html The plan Four cyclists from London make their way to the Loire valley and cycle and camp and cycle and eat cheese drink wine visit chateaus slaughter the language. Our itinerary included Angers Saumur Chinon AzayleRideau Loches and Blois. To keep costs down while allowing us to procrastinate planning we got to France via train to Portsmouth overnight ferry to St. Malo train TER all http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/Saint-Malo/blog-325666.html Visited our friends in Tregastel and enjoyed the beautiful Brittany coast. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/Tr-gastel/blog-323752.html The last day in Bretagne was somewhat a quiet day. The time I stayed in Basse Lande has gone fast. There is no plan to visit any particular place today. We spent the whole day walking around Basse Lande taking photos. The weather was nice very early in the morning then it changed to cloudy and grey. All of us went to a local restaurant called Auberge du Manoir. It was our farewell meal. Our tr http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/blog-323568.html Carnac Brittany Camping Le MoustoirWe arrived here on Sunday 7th after a 6 hour tiring drive down and walked round to select a pitch finally deciding on this one near the showers and swimming pools. I knew it would be a tricky reverse in but hadnrsquot counted on the audience that appeared. Martin unwisely built up the scene by saying ldquo watch this and learnrdquo ...I ask http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/Lorient/blog-323146.html This morning we decided to follow Monsieur Madam who were heading to a little island which is located near Paimpol. As usual we left Basse Lande around 10am in order to catch a ferry on time which may give us a considerable amount of time to enjoy walking around the island. Everyone seemed positive expecting a beautiful weather so did I. It was raining as if Monsoon rain hit this area. I http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/blog-320203.html We sat behind quietly looking at both Monsieur and Madam are guiding us somewhere we did not have a clue.Three of them speak in French which left me very little opportunity to understand. I mainly focus on reading Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Laclos. Now then I was abruptly disturb to inform that we were taking this road that direction then we have missed the direction to this unknown pl http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/blog-320202.html We initially thought to take a walk along the coast from the lighthouse to the castle. Given the hot temperature at this time of the day we decided to take the car which was a sensible decision. We drove back near the entrance where there is a free parking place I have been struggling to park the car myself since I began to drive this massive ship. I have even failed to reverse the car without a http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/blog-320201.html There were two purposes of visiting Cap Frehel. For me it is another day of driving at the wrong side of the road which I thoroughly enjoyed. It was a very hot day we realised that it would be nice to avoid the midday heat. So we planned to drive to Cap Frehel in the afternoon. It took us almost an hour to reach our destination. Then we circled around for a while to find a place where we could http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/blog-320199.html We decided to cycle along the country lanes as the weather showed us a perfect day for cycling.We had such a lovely time while visiting this place surrounded by only maize fields in the middle of the country. This place is now isolated in the middle of the country in an old marsh on the edge of a forest. The Chateau de la Hunaudaye was built eight hundreds years ago but now we could see massiv http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/blog-320198.html Today is a big day for us. Last night we planned to visit Dinan one the most historical well preserved medieval city of 13th century. We instead choice to go to Dinan because we could not get a ferry to St. Malo. We took a local train from Landebia which is located not far from Basse Lande.It was another hot day. The absence of the wind made impossible to wait under the metal roofed waiting ar http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/blog-320197.html Today we planned to go to SaintCas which is one of the most splendid beaches in Bretagne. At the time of our departure the sky was blue and the sun was very bright. It was a perfect time to be on the beach. I am going to be behind the wheel of a very old family car. The size of the car was a bit of problem to me but I was careful not to show my hesitation to anyone. My only worry was how quic http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/blog-320196.html The day began quietly and lazily at this side of Basse Lande. I was woken up by the sound of birds singing not far from my bed. I felt as if a group of birds made a successful invasion against Basse Lande. It was quite unusual beginning of the day in contrast to the sound of racing vehicles and bin collectors. I had to open my eyes as the shutter in front of me went up with a wake up noise. I loo http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/blog-320195.html We spent 11 days in Paris far longer than we have spent or are likely to spend in any one city on this journey. We loved Paris who doesnrsquot and got to do and see everything we wanted. We saw the Louvre Musee DrsquoOrsay and the Rodin Museum. We had dinner at an outdoor bistro in Montmartre. We went down in the catacombs well Erin and her Mom did and then to the top of the Eiffel http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/Saint-Malo/blog-320172.html Finally I've hit the coast I've spent today in St. Malo in Brittany. It a nice place to visit but very touristy. The place is very scenic with the old walled city centre and all the islands off the coast. But the place is full of tourists wandering through the old town and lazing on the beaches. Today being a public holiday there wasn't a bus that I could catch to get to the old city from the http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/Saint-Malo/blog-312506.html Today was another travel day for me. I woke up early with Flore and her mother around 8 o clock in the morning and got my things ready to leave. Flore and her mother were making there way to the north of France to meet Florersquos father where he was working for the week. They were taking the car and so they dropped me off at the train station so that I could catch my train at 1152 am. I sa http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/Lorient/blog-310872.html So we begrudgingly left Portugal a week and a half ago you might have gathered we could have stayed there forever but on to pastures new We left and drove across Portugal and got half way across Spain about 7 hours driving in 30 degrees lovely and unfortunately just as we left Portugal our indicators stopped working Sam had a fiddle and managed to get them working for 50 of the journey. E http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/blog-310521.html So today I decided that I would be ambitious and try to hit two places Vannes and Carnac. I managed to get out of the hostel by about 9am and zoomed down to the train station to buy a ticket to Vannes. My thinking was that they should have buses to Carnac from Vannes and at the very least I would see Vannes as I had planned to. I got my ticket with three minutes to spare before the train lef http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/Rennes/blog-304863.html Well I made it to Rennes yesterday and arrived on what must have been the hottest day of the year. Rumour has it that it was 36 degrees yesterday.... The hostel is pretty nice even though they have lockout hours from 10am to 330pm. I have two Canadian roommates at least that's it so far and they're both really nice. Marina is from Victoria and is anglophone and Justine is from Quebec and http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Brittany-/Rennes/blog-304477.html