Tag: France
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Guerande & La Baule
Day 10, 15th Oct 2025, Guerande & La Baule, Loire Atlantique. This morning we set off for a walled town called Guerande, only a short drive away. There was a convenient car park 5 minutes from one of the town’s ancient gates where we could just squeeze the van into a space. Making our way…
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Rochefort En Terre and Piriac Sur Mer
Day 9, 14 Oct 2025 Rochefort En Terre, Brittany & Piriac Sur Mer, Loire Atlantique. Today was our last stop in Brittany, another ‘pretty village’ called Rochefort En Terre. What a gorgeous little place it is. It only has a couple of roads running through it but they are festooned with beautiful old architecture, some…
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Pont L’Abbe and Josselin
Day 7 & 8, 12 & 13 Oct 2025 Pont L’Abbe & Josselin, Brittany We’ve had a couple of lovely lazy days. Sunday Yesterday, we were intending to visit Quimper until we realised we’d visited earlier this year on our way back from our Christmas break in Spain! Doh! So we passed through and carried…
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Locornan & Audierne
Day 6, 11 Oct 2025 Locornan & Audierne, Brittany While we were getting ready to go this morning, Meg decided to dig her way to Australia through the sandy bank around the beach – meaning she had to have a wipe down from all the sand on her face! And the beach was being set…
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Le Faou & Saint Nic
Day 5, 10 Oct 2025 Le Faou & Saint Nic, Brittany Another lovely morning greeted us as we took a walk up the river bank into Le Faou, a village with medieval houses in a little high street. Le Faou is famous for its shipbuilding back in the day, due to its proximity to a…
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Carantec & Ploumanac’h
Day 3 & 4, 8th & 9th Oct 2025 Carantec & Ploumanac’h, Brittany Wednesday We left Kerlouan and made our way to Carantec, a small village just below St-Pol-de-Leon. This is another of the prettiest villages in Brittany. We parked in a motorhome area at the foot of the village and right next to a…
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Kerlouan day 2
Day 2, 7 Oct 2025 Kerlouan, Brittany Our night’s sleep would have been perfect, no road noise, no neighbour noise, warm and cozy, but for a retching dog! Meg ate so much seaweed on the beach, running off so we couldn’t catch her to extract said seaweed, that she spent the night licking her lips…
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Heading out to Kerlouan
Day 1/2, 5th &6th Oct 2025 Plymouth to Roscoff on the overnight ferry. Friday’s ferry was cancelled due to storm Amy, so we plumbed for an overnight crossing on Sunday. Everything went as smooth as it should, the ferry came in full but left quite empty, so we had no delays. We had clear and…
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Home via the Tunnel
GK Tours 2025. Monday 7th July to Thursday 10th July So we took a leisurely drive back towards the Channel Tunnel over the next few days, stopping at Cerfontaine in Belgium and our old favourite Bray Dunnes in France. Not much to report as these were the usual “heading home” driving days. We were away…
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Alsace Wine Route
GK Tours 2025. Friday 4th July to Sunday 6th July Wangen im allgau, Germany to Vogelgrun and Dambach-la-ville, France via Ribeauville Friday Today we passed from Germany into France through pine forests and past places we visited with Andrew and Jane last year on our way to Italy. The route took us past Lake Bodensee,…