Abalys Hotel Centre Gare Brest

... 360km to Nantes.

Along the way we ran into a little snag. Bad planning put us onto a dual carriageway where bikes were not allowed. However, upon arrival at the junction there was a sign for a cycle route to the town we were heading towards - around the motorway! Like everyone says: the French respect cycling!

Our first French campsite. Looks like this will be a pleasant journey ...

... 8217; road, and scummy ponds where wash used to be done tell back to a time when things were very different. Mami herself is an enchating lady. At first glance you know she is a wealth of information as she putters around the kitchen. Hands and fingers knarled from years of hard work still fly faster than a young pair when peeling apples or potatoes.

She recounts a story during the war of when Russian soldiers came ...

... the hotel in the industrial district of Brest. Then we got bored of sitting in our hotel room so we left and went to the aquarium. The are fishy’s in the Aquarium. I don’t have much to say about Brest. Apart from this.
I went to a place called Mont Saint Michel AND I GOT A SWORD!! It is so cool! So Brest was good and nice. But you might want to tune in for my adventures in Normandy.


Bye bye!!!

After last night I got up quiet late and we went Josh and I went to Christophe to copy some old French movies on DVDs for me to take back home at the end of the trip but we run into a trap as I was told we were expected to have lunch with them. So I went back to the hotel to ...

... event as the French played like **** following their tour of New-Zealand. Anyway I ended up getting a lot of sms (not the supportive kind). I had the time to have a nana nap and we all got ready to go out for dinner. We reach Christophe's Easy day late morning and we watched the game France versus Australia then we went to ...

This morning after breakfast we were going back to our room when someone was behind me and it was Christophe.... he really has not changed we had a long chat and as we both had thing to do we decided to have a drink tomorrow night before going for diner. I went back to the room and we took the road to the Pointe du Raz.... no visit in Brittany would be complete without a visit to the Pointe du Raz. There it has changed as well, all the shaggy ...

After packing the car we went on the port for the "petit dejeuner" and we took the tourist drive toward Brest to be closer to my friends. We found a hotel called Oceania with a swimming pool (do not get excited as it is only 3ft deep) design for English tourist in mind. But the rooms were nice and large so all in all not a bad choice but for the location.... the local industrial estate. Anyway ...

We got up early and loaded the car in no time, I must say that the kids are great and have been more than helpful it seems to be good for them to be away like this. As the car was packed we had breakfast just across the road in a cafe while waiting for the land lady to give us back our bond. Trust the Germans to be on time, she came in a 10am on the dot and I had to go back up the 4th ...

... and reading books. We went to play tennis in the afternoon. after we went to the sea to dip our toes in, kind of cold like Lake Huron at the end of June. Sunday we went for a very long walk along the coast and then lazed around some more. We left around 9:00 so we got into Rennes at 11:00. It was a very fun weekend.

... en we proberen een slag te slaan. Echter als we ons tussen de rotsen een weg banen naar de vrije zee blijkt er veel wind uit het zuid westen te staan en we besluiten dan maar een rondje Ile Brehat te doen. Nu dat valt tegen, hoge golven van alle kanten maken het zeilen erg onplezierig. Na vier uur in touw te zijn geweest belanden we uiteindelijk in een idyllisch baaitje en zijn alles weer snel vergeten. Zaterdag 27 augustus Ile Brehat-Trebeurden Tegen alle verwachting ...