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To save the palaver associated with our disembarkation from Saint Malo, we booked a taxi for 7:45am, calculating that we should be there by 8am. This would be well ahead of sailing at 9:10am and even meeting the 1-hour deadline for checking bags in. Turns out the taxi was right on time and we were…

We kicked off the day with a visit to La Hougue Bie, a Neolithic burial mound, or technically a passage grave. I’ll let you research the difference. La Hougue Bie claims to be one of the 10 oldest buildings in the world, having been built (?) approx 4000 BC. Its passage was built to align…

There is absolutely no street parking around here, but we’ve discovered a car park about 400m up the road which has reasonable rates, and doesn’t charge between 5pm and 8am. It’s even cheaper when the app does stupid things and you discover you haven’t been paying. Let’s see if we get away with that or…

So, up at 6:30am and out the door by 7:00 to be at the Jersey ferry at 7:10 or thereabouts. That sounds fairly early for an 8am sailing, but there was some malarkey about checking passports prior to departure. Unfortunately, it was pitch black at 7am and we got lost on the way. Not so…

Off to Saint Malo today. It’s really only a stopover to catch the ferry to Jersey first thing Wednesday morning. Shame really, as Saint Malo looks like it could occupy a few days seriously exploring. Next time. First up we caught the train from Brest to Rennes, then changed for a train for Saint Malo.…

So, Saturday night in Brest was quiet, compared to what we had taken to be normal in France, and Sunday (markets aside) was even quieter. Monday should see the place abuzz, right? Wrong. I know Brest isn’t a tourist Mecca, and I know we’re over the height of the busy season, and I know there…

Okay, so we’ve established that Michelle doesn’t like stairs or hills. And so far Brest isn’t winning any friends due to the abundance of both. We’ve also discovered that Brest is more like Mount Isa than the Sunny Coast. Nothing is open on Sunday. Not a single grocery store or bottle shop. Luckily a cafe…

Big day. We had to catch the train to Brest (or at least the first leg) at 8:30am, which meant we needed to be up and out by 7am to walk up to the metro station and get to Gare Toulouse-Matabiau at a reasonable time. I worried about the timings and eventually pre booked a…

What a great idea. Unfortunately the practice as good as the theory, but it was a great idea. We bought a 24-hour tram ticket yesterday, and on the way back from Aeroscopia we’d noticed an old Roman amphitheatre. We bought the tickets at 10am, give or take, so if we jump on the tram by…

Up late, out late and off to Aeroscopia, on the outskirts of Toulouse. As luck would have it, our apartment is over the road from the tram stop, and Aeroscopia is 20-odd stops down the line. Takes three quarters of an hour to get there, but it would take at least that long to get…