Jamikins and Bikerscott go Francing - A Brittany Trip Report

Oh and I will add links to our pics as we sort them etc...

jamikins, I hadn't connected you and Bikerscott. Neat. (My wife is an occasional poster here, too.)

You're off to a great start.

Looking forward to more and remembering fondly my last glass of calvados ...

Anselm

Great start on what sounds like a great trip. And great deal on that hotel. Wow.

Sounds like you were in Brittany when we were. I also found Dinard beautiful.

We name our rental cars but it's usually based on color or some acronym from their license plate.

Will be interested in what you say about Dinan as we missed it. My DH had a seafood reaction the afternoon we were to go there.

Thanks for your comments so far...always nice to know someone is reading

We really had a great time.

Julie: that hotel spoiled us for hte rest of our travels I think!! It was soo nice...they had our bags whipped out of the trunk and carried off to our room before we even got out of the car! For £100!

Hopingtotravel: sorry to hear about your DH...hope he was alright. We loved Dinan...it was soo cute...but maybe thats just an excuse for you guys to go back

Will post more later, hopefully with some pictures!

Jamie

Great--can't wait for the next chapter and photos.

Yes,, can't wait for next installment, I love trip reports and yours so far has been very good!

Thanks for the encouragement! Pictures should be ready to post on Sunday.

Day 2 - The Day of Tourists

Sunday, 18 May 2008

We began the day with a relatively early morning walk down by the marina in Dinard. Desperately, but futilely, in search of coffee. Being somewhat opposed to paying over the odds for average breakfasts at hotels, we’d decided to skip the €36 option at the hotel. We did finally grab a pain au chocolat and a croissant in a boulangerie on the way out of town.

We gathered our things, collected Isabelle and headed towards St Malo, just across the bay. St Malo was once a famous privateer stronghold where Jacques Cartier was from. Now it is a walled tourist town, full of naff shops selling swords and monogrammed soaps. Well, maybe that is a little harsh, but we prefer the realness of Dinard. Fortunately St Malo redeemed itself by having good espresso and fantastic views from the ramparts.

The city was destroyed during WW2 and has been completely redone, which they have done very well. We wouldn’t have even noticed this if someone hadn’t told us. We walked the ramparts and along the edge is a group of Quebecois flags, so of course, as Canadians, we stopped to take a picture of Jacques Cartier (he ‘discovered’ and claimed Canada for France in 1534). Turns out that it wasn’t Jacques…it was a famous privateer called Surcouf. Why he was standing amongst Quebecois flags is mystery we still haven’t solved! We did find Jacques later but he was off by himself in a park. Hmmm…perhaps a mix up when putting up the statues?

After wandering around the ramparts for a while, we loaded back into Isabelle and drove the Emerald Coast towards our next stop – Le Mont St Michel. After stopping at a lookout point along the way we headed towards Cancale for some famous oysters for lunch. We found a bit of Cancale inappropriately labelled (they have signs when you enter a town and then have a sign with an X through the town name when you leave) as it wasn’t the REAL Cancale, it was Basse Concale…but it had lots of restaurants overlooking the Bay of St Michel. You could even see Le Mont in the distance. We managed to have a very tasty lunch in the sunshine. Later we drove past the real Cancale and it looked very nice. Darn French, first the mustard, now this!! (See previous Francing trip report for mustard story http://www.fodors.com/forums/pgMessages.jsp?fid=2&tid=34889327&numresponses=119&start=0&searchText=bikerscott )

We drove along the Bay to the Mont. All along we caught spectacular views of the famous abbey on its little hill in the middle of the Bay. We arrived at the official parking and found a spot for Isabelle, then ascended into Hell.

Le Mont St Michel (actually in Normandy) is a beautiful village which has been completely overrun with massive hordes of tourists and the horrible sword-selling shops that they attract. Of course, we don’t consider ourselves to be tourists ha ha ha. We arrived around 3pm and checked into our hotel, Auberge St Pierre http://www.auberge-saint-pierre.fr/ and wandered around for a bit until we found a nice vantage point to watch the ‘galloping horses’ of the tide come surging across the bay. After 2 cold hours we realized that the horse would probably have to be dead to be out-galloped by the tide! We now have what will most likely be the most boring time lapse photography ever. I blame Jamie for this, as it turns out we were a couple hours early for the tide and she got the time wrong!!!

After 2 hours freezing in the cold we found a suitable bar and I had a grog and Jamie tried a Kir Normande (crème de cassis/cidar/calvados), followed by a bottle of cidar. Yes, a whole bottle. We then headed out for dinner. By this time the day trippers had left and the town was serene and beautiful…exactly why we chose to stay there overnight!

There is really only 1 road on the Mont leading up to the abbey, and what everyone says is true…there is no good food. We settled on Les Terraces de Poulard where we had the worst service ever. Our waiter opened the wine, put it down on the table, and immediately walked away, all without saying a word! Jamie enjoyed her mussels in cream and lobster, and I an omelette with ‘wild’ mushrooms from a tin and the leg of lamb. The wine was delicious anyway, a yummy Chateauneuf du Pape.

We are avid photographers, so after finishing out average meal we dragged out the tripod and got some lovely shots of the abbey all lit up. Absolutely worth putting up with the tourists!

Excellent! Thanks - looking forward to the rest of the report.

Finally getting some pictures ready:

Day 1: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jamie.a.shearer/BrittanyDay1

Day 2: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jamie.a.shearer/BrittanyDay2

Day 3

Monday, 19 May 2008

We woke up at 8:30 again this morning, hoping to avoid the hordes of tourists that would be descending on the Mont. After quickly getting ready in our plastic enclosures of bathrooms that reminded us of a motor home (with the leakiest shower in all of Europe) we walked up to the abbey at the top of the hill. It was a good thing we got there early as we could already see the lines of buses pulling into the parking lot.

The abbey itself was beautiful and almost completely empty at that hour. We had some of the rooms all to our selves. Hard to believe such a beautiful place even exists!!! We would have loved to see it in full use with monks all around.

We collected our bags and made the short walk down to the reception, grabbing a quick croquet monsieur on the way. I’m glad we hit the abbey when we did – the road was almost solid with ‘pilgrims’ heading up towards the abbey as we left. Even pulling a suitcase through the crowd was difficult…we were like salmon swimming upstream.

We loaded up Isabelle, stopping only briefly to take a few more photos as we went. Our mission for the day was to get to Dinan the long way round. We managed to find it, only making one wrong turn – who needs GPS? Jamie managed to pick right instead of left at the intersection heading into town so I got to drive right through the narrow and cobble stoned old centre of Dinan.

We checked into our rather plain, dorm like room at Hotel Arvor http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/658ac/1eca7/3/ then jumped on the Train Touristique around the city. Jamie has a strange obsession with these tourist trains. Next we walked down the STEEP and rather windy road to the old port and had an excellent 3 course meal on a patio overlooking the River Rance at Auberge Terre Neuve. We had planned on taking the tourist boat cruise from the port; however right across the road from the restaurant was a little place that rented boats.

Being the adventurous nautical types that we are we immediately signed up for a 3 hour tour (fortunately our ship wasn’t called the Minnow). We motored up river for an hour or so, passing through one lock and back again, and then back down river for another hour or so until we got to a little marina. Definitely more fun than the tour boat could have been. All that boating worked up a mean thirst, so after a bit of slightly aimless wandering we found a little pub in front of the basilica St Saveur where Jamie discovered that Hoeggarden is her favourite beer. Being so close we took a quick peak in the basilica before going to Chez la Mere Pourcel (http://www.chezlamerepourcel.com/anglais/index_gb.php) for a fantastic meal in a beautiful half timbered building in the heart of Dinan. We wandered around for another hour or so taking photographs of the town as the light slowly faded.

Dinan is a beautiful town – lots of medieval buildings, half-timbered houses and narrow cobbled streets, excellent food and friendly people make it one of our favourites in Brittany.

Day 3: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jamie.a.shearer/BrittanyDay3

Day 4

Tuesday, 20 May 2008

Another busy day of driving. We got up at 8:30 and found a café up the street in Dinan (being slightly afraid of the potential breakfast at the hotel) for a coffee and croissant. Next was a short photographical tour of the remains of the ramparts of the old town before packing up Isabelle and hitting the road.

The plan was to head back up to the Emerald Coast near Dinard and explore more of the Breton coast – Cap Frehel and such. The coast was beautiful with rocky points and sandy beaches. We also stopped at Fort la Latte, which is this great fort, perched on a hill overlooking the English Channel.

After walking out to the Point at Cap Frehel, we turned inland and made our way to the centre of Brittany, stopping briefly for lunch in St Alban at a roadside creperie. This was Jamie’s first Breton crepe and it was fantastic - filled with cheese, mushrooms and ham. I enjoyed a lovely salad – is it still considered a salad if it’s covered in bacon and duck?

By taking a somewhat round about route through very rural Brittany (on purpose of course), we made it to our B&B in St Caradec by 3pm. http://www.beautifulbrittany.com/en/index.html We checked in and had a short chat with Christiana. She recommended that we drive the short distance to walk along the canal that Napoleon had built between Nantes and Brest – so we did. It was stunning – miles of seemingly unused locks and canals with a relatively well-kept footpath alongside. We walked for nearly an hour before deciding that it was time for a beverage.

We planned to have dinner in Loudeac, so we drove straight there, with an idea that we’d find a little café on a nice street to have a drink while we waited for dinner. Turns out Loudeac is not that scenic at all. We found an odd little bar called Le Nelson and I had my first pastis of the year while Jamie had a glass of wine. We stretched that out as long as we could before having an éclair down the street while we waited for the restaurant to open (it was excellent by the way). Even that didn’t kill enough time so we decided to go for a drive.

We made it as far as a really manky pub down the road, frequented it seems, by all the local shady men. After an hour and a bit of waiting at the pub we drove back to the restaurant to discover that it was still closed. Closer inspection of the sign outside revealed that it is only open on Wednesday and Saturday nights! As it was Tuesday we contemplated simply going back to St Caradec for a crepe but decided to have a pizza in Loudeac instead.

After a very tasty pizza we only got slightly lost as we tried to make our way back to the B&B. Fortunately, we had the foresight to buy a bottle of wine which we drank on our room. I don’t drive when I drink so had moved to diet coke earlier in the afternoon.

Pictures from Day 4:

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jamie.a.shearer/BrittanyDay4

Great job, jamikins. Am enjoying the report. We did a lot of the same in April. Love Dinan!

Loving your report. And the pictures make it come to life. We are headed to this region this summer for a self-driving barging trip.

Thanks guys..we just love photography!

Travelgirl, if you love seafood you will love it!!

Great job! Your report is interesting and I really enjoy your pictures.

I'm enjoying your pictures as you went to some different areas than we did. Brittany is huge! I would already like to go back and see more around Dinard. I don't have a way of putting my pictures on here, but my report is the one that starts with "Paris When it Sizzles...

Wednesday, 21 May 2008

After a slightly odd breakfast at the B&B (just bread and coffee – normal for France, but for a B&B?) we packed into Isabelle and started towards Rennes, the capital of Brittany, for the day. We made it as far as Loudeac before getting completely lost as there was a diversion. Problem was that they diverted traffic but never told traffic how to get back onto the highway!

We eventually made it after a beautiful drive of just less than two hours and found parking on the outskirts of the city. Rennes has a great metro system, so we parked and rode the metro into the centre. Getting off we saw our first beautiful view of Rennes. We were in Place Ste Anne, a square lined with cafes and restaurants. We wandered around for a bit before deciding that it was time for lunch. Putting our trust in the Green Guide, we walked across the historic centre of town to a place called Leon le Couchon (Leon the Pig, can you imagine and English restaurant called that!) http://www.leonlecochon.com/leon_le_cochon/plan_leon-le-cochon.htm .

Being the adventurous epicurean that I am, I ordered the andouillette with potatoes, while Jamie went for the safer but infinitely more boring steak. I made it a fair way through the compressed intestine sausage before the thought of what I was eating and the hideous smell of it become too much for me. Jamie thought the whole thing was rather amusing.

After lunch we wandered around, following the walking tour in the Green Guide. Rennes is a beautiful town, filled with narrow streets and half-timbered houses. The walk (more of a relaxed saunter really, with a stop for a crepe and a coffee to get rid of the andouille taste), took a good couple of hours by which time we decided that we were ready for a drink (hmmmm…starting to see a pattern here). We found a little café on Place Ste Anne where we’d started the day and relaxed with a bottle of wine/coffee for a few hours.

We decided that we didn’t want to wait around until 7:30 for the restaurants to open so we took the metro back to the car and headed home. There is a little creperie in our village so we went there (after getting lost again in Loudeac). The crepes were very tasty and the cidar just as good. Still couldn’t get rid of the taste of andouille though!

Pictures of Day 5

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jamie.a.shearer/BrittanyDay5

Jamikins and Bikerscott, great photos!

Really wish I could get to France this summer. You two are very fortunate being so close now.

Really enjoying the report. I'm sorry about the sausage thing, but am also happy to know that others sometimes feel the way I do. I just can't that stuff!

Thanks for keeping on. Your pictures of Day 5 are my favorites so far. Love those crooked looking houses.

Thanks for the comments

Leely...yes, we are soo fortunate! Its pretty much the reason we moved to London! Addicted to European travel!

Celiaane...yup, Bikerscott is much more adventurous than me, and from time to time it does make for some amusement on my end. He did make quite a dent in it though!

irishface...I loved the crooked houses everywhere as well! You just dont get that in Vancouver, where we are from!

Thursday, 22 May 2008

Today turned out to be a very interesting day. One of the reasons we chose this B&B is to take cooking lessons with Christian Caille, who is a Cordon Bleu trained chef. We started with another basic breakfast of bread and coffee before piling into Christian’s VW West Falia and heading into the unknown. We picked up picnic supplies at a Champion, and we were ready to go pick mussels!

We got on well with Christian, who very much reminded us of a French version of Jamie’s dad – a little disorganized with white hair and beard. We eventually made it to Pointe Minard on the Emerald Coast and managed to find a rather steep path down the cliff to the rocks below. We spent an hour or so prying mussels and oysters off the rocks (Jamie eating more oysters than collecting), managing to fill a fairly large basket.

We climbed back up to the top and enjoyed our picnic lunch of bread, cheese, pate, and carrot salad before heading back to St Caradec for dinner and our cooking lesson.

I started by dicing shallots and chopping parsley and peeling boiled potatoes with Christian while Jamie got a tour of the garden from Christiana. We ate the oysters from the shell as a first course, and then got stuck into a demonstration on cooking mussels which actually turned out to be fairly easy. We ate those with the potatoes that we had fried up and then moved on to the salad and cheese, finally followed by a demonstration of Crepes Suzettes. The whole night we spent chatting with Christian and Christiana. We ended the evening with a magical glass of 40 year old calvados – it tasted like heaven in a glass – best beverage I’ve ever had.

Tomorrow is a drive along the Pink Granite Coast then another meal with Christian and Christiana.

Pictures for Day 6:

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jamie.a.shearer/BrittanyDay6

Friday, 23 May 2008

We had breakfast on our own this morning as the other guests had left very early. We spent the day driving around the Pink Granite Coast – the north-westish coast of Brittany where the rocks on shore are all huge pink granite masses. It looks like a prehistoric world!

We spent most of the day walking through the amazing cliffs and driving along the coast, stopping for lunch at a creperie in Ploumanach, a tiny fishing village. We were both tired from the late dinner the night before so we headed back to the B&B for a nap before dinner. Jamie managed to fall asleep in the car on the way. We both crashed and then headed down to dinner with Christiana and Christian.

Like last night, the meal was fantastic, featuring Guinea fowl with potatoes and some odd vegetable that tasted like oysters. We had a fabulous time and Christian even shared some of his prized pear brandy with us. A huge honour as it’s his favourite drink and only available in Switzerland. I think we’ve made some new friends.

Tomorrow it is off to Vannes!

Pictures from Day 7:

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jamie.a.shearer/Brittany7

Hopefully people are still reading and still interested...

Saturday, 24 May 2008

We slept in a bit before heading downstairs for breakfast. We discovered that they don’t take credit cards so we had to make an emergency trip to Loudeac to grab some cash…in doing so we also discovered our cash withdrawal limit on our cards. Luckily we got enough and headed back to the B&B.

After saying goodbye to Christiana and Christian, we drove to Bignan to have lunch at Auberge La Chouanniere which had been highly recommended by Christian – evidently he used to send trainee chefs there. As you would expect, the food was fantastic (including the foie gras as all good meals should include). We highly recommend a stop here if you are heading south.

Next was on to Vannes through the drizzle. We’d been very lucky with the weather so far. As we drove it kept getting worse and worse. We got to Vannes and quickly discovered that the map I’d printed would’ve been better if it had shown the way through town centre. Nevertheless, we found our B&B – Villa Catherine http://www.villa-catherine.fr/ thanks to some fantastic navigation by Jamie.

After getting settled in our room we decided to walk to town for dinner. The 20 min walk seemed like a better idea before we got absolutely soaked. We walked for around for a while, Jamie trying to take photos while I held the umbrella for her. As it was raining so hard, we were forced to stop at several pubs along the way, including an odd Irish place called Paddy O’Dowd’s where we had a few pints of Guinness.

At 7:30pm we wandered up the street to the Green Guide recommended La Table des Gourmets for a fantastic 6 course tasting menu with wine pairings. The entertainment for the evening included watching an old guy wine and dine a MUCH younger woman – the debate was if she was a woman of negotiable affection or not…

We trudged back to Villa Catherine and watched the finale of Eurovision 2008 (some European singing competition) before passing out with exhaustion.

Pictures from Day 8:

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jamie.a.shearer/BrittanyDay8

Wonderful photos. Keep them coming!

The Eurovision song contest is one of the top annual television programs in the world! And yes, it is pathetic. But always a hoot.

Gosh, Bikerscott, you're really brave (or foolhardy) to try andouillete. It is the most noxious food I've ever encountered. If you can find it on the web (not on Fodors) Burke and Wells a traveling duo had a website in which they detailed their experience with it entitled Excremental Encounter. I think it was on Chowhound as well. It is possibly the funniest bit of food writing I've ever seen. Laughed until I cried. It's worth looking for and I'm sure you'll be able to relate.

Andouillette is wonderful. And the rest of you in the U.S. just eat it (and other body parts) ground up into hot dogs and dyed pink.

kerouac wrote: "Andouillette is wonderful."

To some, including me. But andoille is a whole 'nother matter; hate it -- well, okay, don't quite hate it, but don't like it; give me anything else on the menu.

That's probably because andouille is eaten cold and you have to peel off that black skin. Still good, though.

If Jamikins and Bikerscott have discovered this delightful item yet, I'm sure they will put it on their list for the next trip.

have = haven't

Kerouac...We (meaning Bikerscott) will have to add it to his ever growing list of foods to try in France.

I'm pretty adventurous: I eat escargot, fois gras etc...but just cant do intestines. And i dont eat hot dogs or sausages either My grade 3 teacher showed us what is in them and I havent touched them since!

I do enjoy watching Scott struggle through though! He will try anything!

Sunday, 25 May 2008

We woke up and went downstairs for a very odd breakfast. Cold crepes with no forks, just a knife. Messy, but good. We drove back into town to take a few photos while the light was good before starting out on our driving tour of the Cote Sauvage (Savage Coast). Our first stop was Pointe D’Arradon where we did a quick walk around the harbour to admire the boats and the view. From here you get a great view of the Golfe du Morbihan. Next was a very quick stop at Lamour-Baden, hoping to take the boat over to one of the island to see one the prehistoric megaliths. But it was closed; instead we drove to Auray to look around and for some lunch.

Auray is a quant little port town on the river with fantastic half-timbered buildings and lots of very touristy restaurants. We had a tasty lunch at one of them – mussels and fries for me and tuna and durade for Jamie. I was forced to have profiteroles for dessert – I hate it when that happens!

After lunch we took a quick walk around the Menhirs at Carnac, and then took a drive to the Savage Coast on the south side of Brittany. It’s much more rugged here than the north coast, and we spent some time sitting on the rocks watching the tide come in and crash against the rocks.

By this point it was getting late so we got back into Isabelle and drove back to Vannes for dinner. It being Sunday, pretty much everything was closed, but we found a nice restaurant to eat at just near the cathedral. We started with a baby scallop dish for me and oysters for Jamie. Next were more scallops for me and curried monkfish for Jamie, followed by cheese and dessert. An excellent way to end our last full day of Francing.

Pictures from Day 9:

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jamie.a.shearer/BrittanyDay9

I have to say that the andouillette tasted pretty good, it was more the smell of it that turned me off. I'm not shy about eating the less attractive bits of animals (have had tripe in Rome, brains in San Francisco, bone marrow in Sonoma County, blood sausage in Limerick, heart in high school, countless livers etc) and as long as it doesn't have an odour problem, I'm game to give the andouille a go.

Glad everyone is enjoying the trip report

Scott and Jamie, I just discovered your great report and wonderful photos and enjoyed them all at one sitting. Thanks for sharing!

My daughter and I visited Brittany and Normandy very briefly one summer, just to see Mont St Michel. Since you're based in Britain at the moment, have you had a chance to visit St. Michael's Mount near Penzanze? If not, be sure to add it to your list.

Thanks Moolyn!

I hadnt heard about that in Penzance...will add it to the ever growing list of places to go! Can you believe I have a spreadsheet with vacation ideas for the next 5 years???

Monday, 26 May 2008

Today was another travel day. We headed back up to Dinard to catch our flight home in the afternoon. We stopped in the touristy village of Rochefort-en-Terre, and then again in Dinan for lunch by the river. We got to Dinard with some time to spare so we sat on the beach and had one last drink overlooking the beach. Flight home was uneventful but full as it was the evening of the bank holiday Monday. We had a fantastic time in Brittany, and while they don’t make a lot of cheese in this region, the seafood was amazing. It was different than other regions of France that we have visited, and we loved it too!

Pictures from Day 10:

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jamie.a.shearer/BrittanyDay10

I'd be happy to answer any questions if anyone has any!

I still don't think I'll be giving andouillette a try. I'll tell myself it's because I cannot pronounce it.

How would you rate this area of France in comparison to others you've visited? I know, I know, hard to make those kinds of comparisons, but...? I see you talk about this a bit in your intro, but could you elaborate?

Thanks again--the report and photos are both very enjoyable.

On-Dwee-eht. Now go find another excuse.

We also went through Rochefort en Terre. Curious what you thought of it. Did you have any meals there?

hopingtotravel: We really just stopped to take pics as it was Monday and NOTHING was open. Nothing. So we were only there a few minutes. It is an adorable little village though...very small, what you see in my pics is pretty much it although they have huge parking lots just outside the village which makes me think large tour buses stop there...

Leely2: It was very different than the other areas and I think we both agree (you can disagree if you want honey) that is was not our favorite place. We LOVED Burgundy and Dordogne. Loved the gastronomy and wine in these regions (we are huge foodies). So the fact that cheese wasnt a huge part of the meals, and it was mostly seafood (not one of Bikerscott's favourite things) disappointed us a bit. In saying that the seafood was all excellent.

If you enjoy seafood and beach holidays that include beaches and boating then this is the place for you. I also think we moved around a bit too much as we wanted to see a lot of things and we arent really beach people. I think if you spent several days in Dinard/St Malo and enjoyed the seaside atmosphere than it would work a bit better.

In saying that, we had a great time and enjoyed every minute!

We noticed the large parking lots too. Things were open when we were there, but I couldn't really see what all the fuss was a bout. We saw lots of prettier little towns. As you'll see when I get to it in my report, we weren't all that crazy about eating there.

We actually called it a McVillage to be honest. Hard to judge when it wasnt open...but it came across like a Disneyland version of Dinan...but again we were only there for a few minutes so that may be harsh

Monday is a bad day to visit a lot of places in France. Only the big cities have gotten over the traditional Monday closings.

Jamie, thank you for the additional information.

I switched jobs almost a year ago, and while I love what I'm doing now, I have far less time off for holidays. So I like to hear all about a place, travelers' opinions, their preferences, whether they like beer or wine, salmon or veal--all of it. Of course it's still a crapshoot.

Where to next?

I am going to the Channel Islands for work, so Bikerscott is coming for the weekends, then back to Canada to visit family. Sept is a week in Burgundy and Paris with the inlaws, Wales for a long weekend in Oct and then Strasbourg for Christmas. I think I am addicted to traveling!

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Hi jamikins,

just came across your excellent trip report whilst researching our trip to Brittany in September. we'll be concentrating on the west as we're using the Plymouth roscoff ferry, and only have 5 nights.

we're thinking of basing ourselves in Morlaix [30 minutes from the ferry port at Roscoff where our boat arrives at 7pm] for a couple of nights, so we can tour the nothern corniche bretonne for a day, then Quimper for the other 3 nights to explore the south.

what do you think about this?

I'm posting thread of my own so you or anyone else can join in there, if they so care.

thanks again for the entertainment [i loved the description you trying to eat the andouillette.]

Have you managed to make it to Cornwall yet?

regards, ann

jamikins,

Nice trip report and beautiful pictures. We were there at the same time.

Thanks Ann and cafegoddess!

Ann, we didnt make it that far west, but Quimper is suppose to be amazing. With the autoroutes its very easy to get around Brittany. You will love it, it is very beautiful!

We havent made it to Cornwall, but it is on our list!!