Visit to the Old Port and Submarine Pen at St Nazaire before taking ferry to Gijon.
June 11th 2014 We are being extremely lucky with our weather. Another glorious blue sky day for our very short drive to the mouth of the Loire at St Nazaire.
Plan for the day was to visit the submarine pens and anything else which took our fancy as we had plenty of free time before our evening ferry to Spain.
Very easy to park, free space in abundance in the old dock area so we parked and went in to buy ti
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