The Vineyard Trail

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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.…

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…

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,…

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…