Friday 31st May Having arrived back from Nantes this morning, after an early lunch I took my bag and headed off on the train to Rennes, where I picked up a rental car for my tour around Brittany. The car was an Opel Corsa – small car, rival to the VW Polo, but not as good, in my opinion. It was OK but lacked power and even in top gear was revving hard at 110 km/h on the motorways. I prefer travelling on the back roads as much as possible, when time allows. You see much more and there is often no traffic. The little French villages are very charming but there sure are a lot of them, each with 30 km/h zones, speed bumps, etc to negotiate. Google maps just loves backroads, heading off the
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