Tag: Pretty village
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St Jean Pied de Port
GK Tours. Day 12 Thursday Friday 15th November 2024 Cap Breton to St Jean Pied de Port. We had a very lazy start this morning, I popped out to the bread van at 9am for two baguettes and some croissants. There’s something special about having them brought to you , feels a bit like cheating.…
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Cadillac sur Garonne.
GK Tours. Day 9 Tuesday 12th November Royan to Cadillac sur Garonne. This morning started lovely and sunny, but very chilly. After depleting our supply of clean garments it was time to find a laundry. We identified a couple, one was within the complex of a very big supermarket. Well, first we had to find…
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Ferry home via Guingamp and Roscoff
Day 26 & 27 , 31st Oct & 1st Nov Guingamp and Roscoff, France Yesterday’s drive was the longest we have done so far, just under 5 hours including a couple of stops. We picked a small town – Guingamp – that left us an hour or so’s drive to Roscoff the next day. There…
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Saint Florent le Vieil and Savennieres
Day 12, 17th Oct 2025 Savennieres & Saint Florent le Vieil, Maine et Loire We had a late start this morning, Meg was so relaxed and loving the conkers she kept finding, that she didn’t want to leave . Our drive took us into wine country, vineyards were everywhere. No fruit on them but the…
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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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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…