Novotel Rennes Alma

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 ...

... 19th century viaduct spanning high above the port. It was beer o'clock so we found the old towns bar street and settled ourselves down on one of the outside tables. We tried two local beers a Picon and Affligate. Picon a dark beer but tasting like it contained lemonade (hmmm not sure about that one) and Affligate which was like a blonde Leffe - this was a good choice ...

A hard frost overnight was almost gone by this morning. The sky was blue; the tent dried in the sunshine and I was away promptly. Definitely colder than yesterday; a Wiltshire nip. First task was to get back on the canal. Unfortunately I don't have a proper map just a diagram printed from the net. Generally canals are hard to miss and its been fine. But being off the canal meant relying in the vague diagram. Which meant straight up a steep hill. Which I rode. Got to the ...

... outside and one right down the middle). We had a picnic lunch, got attacked by bugs and a beetle, walked around for an hour and then headed back to the bus stop. Because it was Pentecost, the buses only ran once an hour. Luckily, we caught one within the hour and headed back to Rennes. Michelle and I didn't get back to Saint Gregoire until about two hours later, but we didn't have to walk home. That was the goal. We were so tired after the day in the sun. It's really surprising how ...

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