Brit Hotel Le Castel Rennes

I went just one day to Rennes. I thought it was really pretty since all of the houses are made of
rough stones, des maisons bretonnes typiques. Aussi, les maisons sont faites
toutes un peu croches, ca donne un petit style que j'aimais bien.



Et oui effectivement, il fait beau plusieurs fois par jour. It does rain a LOT.
There is mainly what is in every french city, bars, restaurants and shoe shops!

Been chopping some wood for the fire for the last 2 days with ayms cousins and family. 1 of ayms cousins has an old merc he doesnt need, so he has told us we can have it.
Its gonna cost qbout 400 euros to get in insured, mot and on the road, but im hoping rose and mickou will come and split the costs with us.
Petrol to tunisia through spain and africa will cost about 300 euros so its not too bad, hoping to get work in south of france next week to fund it.

... a new town or city is far more compelling than grannies lovely soup. The plan is to move on in the next few days, possibly meeting up with my friends Rose and Mickou (sp) if we can get work along the way.

So gonna sign off for now, hopefully find some work on the internet and the next post will be from spain. Adios amigo!

Unfortunately the fairy tale turretts and cobble streets failed to live up to expectation and seemed to lack any ambiance. This was probably not helped by us arriving at lunchtime when but everything was shut - French siesta time. After wandering around the deserted streets ...

... beers, we went to a club that this guy told us was open until 5am, only 2 hours short of the 1st morning bus, but we werent allowed in! aymericks long hair probably or maybe too drunk, either way we ended up getting a taxi back to st thurial which cost us 65 euros!!

getting bored of st thurial now, hopefully we,ll be moving down to nantes in the next 2 days, either hitching or a bus if its cheap!

... and all healthy like) and we chatted. I met the gorgeous little cat who was upset as her kittens had been homed and she was still looking for them, poor little love. But she let me stroke her to make up for it and drank the milk Prahla'd gave her. So very cute (the cat).

Then I was shown the garden - veg patch, fruit trees, little walkways cut through to seats and tents and lots of plants that people call weeds and he and I call useful ...

... laundry detergent, candy, hats, instant coffee, clappers, beer bottle openers...wow! The next day we rode back to Cholet to see the time trial race of the Tour. This was rather anticlimactic, as we had no clue who was riding or how fast. TV is definitely a better way to watch a TT. We rode the train back to Nantes. Since Nantes, we have ridden north into Brittany. Strangely we have had a tail wind for two days, with rain all day today.We are heading ...

... say it's the prettiest and has the most character, which is probably why it's a popular vacation spot for all French and foreigners in the summer. Well, that was a lot of information. I hope it all made sense and that you enjoyed reading about the adventures of the Roberts family. We enjoyed ourselves more than it shows. I am going to try to get my second week posted in the near future. Vacation ends today and I foresee lots of writing but not leisurely writing. Yay for papers!! All my love, Jess

... a few photos. It was really cool. They bought me a necklace as a present. It is pretty cute. Sunday was lovely. I went to a marché in Betton with my host mom. It was fun to see all the different stands. There was even a woman selling tablecloths and other household items. We bought some fruit and vegetables for the day and headed home. We had the French equivalent to pot roast and homemade panna cotta for dessert. It was so good. I went on a 5 mile ...

... not only do I have an immediate host family, I know have met my aunt and uncle, their son and daughter, her boyfriend, and my father's parents, who we called Mami and Papi. The beautiful thing is how they seemed to accept me into their family. They continued their own conversations, asked me questions that I understood and answered. All this was done over a great meal. Our dinner consisted of an aperitif of champagne, dried fruit and small bits of bread and salami. When ...