Batz sur mer

Drive To Batz-sur-Mer on the West Brittany coast

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August 29th 2010
Quite sad to leave our lovely site at Loches but time to find the sea. Weather promised great things as we left, blue sky all the way, which made for a brilliant drive as everything always looks so much better when the sun is shining. This applied especially to the massive fields full of enormous ripe sunflowers which lined our route for the first hour. Simply wonderful. We drove due west, at ... read more

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