Blogs from Brittany , France, Europe - page 20

Today was the day for exploring the local area. Just south-east of Pont Aven is Doëlan, a small fishing village that spans both sides of its river – so it has a Rive Gauche and a Rive Droite just like Paris. As the tourist blurbs say, it really is the archetypal fishing port. We managed to get there quite early so there were not many tourists and we were absolutely taken with the place. There is a walking trail along both sides of the river and also along the coast where you can walk, basically as far as you like in either direction – it just goes on and on. We only walked a short way along the coast as we were getting hungry. Sadly, the few restaurants in town were all full by the time ... read more

So after my stay in the South I made the long and treacherous journey across France to Brittany, by train, lugging about 45kg of luggage behind me. I set out at 11 o'clock from Toulon - luckily my pastor was kind enough to escort me to the train or I might have had some difficulty battling my way down the stairs and up the escalator. When I got on the train I felt I was about to re-live the unpleasant memories of my first train journey in France all those months ago and that’s more or less what happened. Only this time it was worse. I braced myself for the hour journey to Marseille, standing up, wedged between the luggage. It would seem that as much France prides itself on efficient and punctual public transport, they ... read more

Hallo ihr Lieben Bald ist meine Reise vorbei... v.a. mit einem weinenden Auge verlasse ich nun diese Gegend. Die letzten Tage waren wunderschön! Wenn man plötzlich irgendwie genug hat wie das bei mir der Fall war, als ich hier in Carnac angekommen bin, und auch weiss, weshalb man "die Nase voll hat", dann sind die "kleinen" Sachen, die diese Situation verändern und einem so guttun und einfach eintreten, ein Geschenk. Und so ging es mir in den letzten Tagen. Nachdem ich den letzten Blog geschrieben habe, habe ich tatsächlich den Windsurfstrand gefunden, St-Colomban. Es hatte ja auch Wind und so versuchte ich es auch mit meinem neuen 6.0-Segel. Wunderbar hat es geklappt. Auf der Karte suchte ich mir einen Campingplatz intuitiv nach dem für mich ansprechendsten Namen aus, und landete auf Les Druides. Und hier konnte ... read more

While waiting for a tram into Nantes central, we realised that we have left behind the delcious and expensive chocolate tiles we had bought near the Eifel tower in Paris! Enough to bring tears to your eyes (and it did - but that could have been the lack of sleep too). Our next hosts lived right in the centre of Nantes. We met Pascal and Sirius (the cat) at their home, and went for a wander to grab some tourist info. We went over to the bike hire place and booked a couple of bikes for the next few days so we could ride to the coast and back. Pascal's partner Leyla came home and cooked up a couple of delicious pizzas for us all to share. Sunday morning we packed up what we needed for ... read more

Not much news from yesterday, as we left Andorra and tried to boot it back up north as far as we could so we could catch our flight today. We drove from Andorra to Nantes, France which took us 9 hours of driving and 1 hour of waiting (in severe traffic because of an unknown incident). Today we were in a much better position. Being only an hour and a half away from the airport, we had ample time to explore the city we first came into on this trip: St. Malo. We figured that we had too much time on our hands, and didn't know what to expect in st malo (after all, it was Sunday and that's a quiet day). However, we were very pleasantly surprised. Our first order of business when we got ... read more