Monthly Archive: July, 2017

After our long day yesterday this was to be less strenuous. We woke at 7:00 am and were up and breakfasted by 8:00 am without firm plans for the day. There had been discussion yesterday of a visit to Josselin, about an hour away, where John had visions of pictures of the château reflected in the river. Majella had checked...

We woke this morning to find the power still out. My Fitbit alarm had gone at 6:00 am in anticipation of an early start for a long day out but, seeing no sign of light on our charger station, I rolled over for another 30 minutes. When I was out and dressed I went down to begin boiling water for...

Believe it not, there are enough things to entertain us in the vicinity of Trébry that our plans for today did not involve driving any significant distance away. Nor did they require an early start so we took advantage of the opportunity to sleep a little later and relax after breakfast for a while. Our plans were dependent on weather,...

We seem to have settled into a pattern of alternating big days out and rest days with less vigorous but still interesting activities. After our day in the Loire we were due for a rest day so there was no early rising this morning.

Some of us enjoy cider, which is a good thing in Brittany where it is endemic, but we all enjoy wine so a visit to the nearest wine region in the Loire valley was bound to be on our itinerary. Today was the day.

After our big day out to Mont Saint Michel yesterday we were not really disappointed that the forecast for today was rain in the morning and drier in the afternoon. That gave us permission to lie in a bit later this morning and enjoy the sound of the gentle rain on the skylights. It was approaching 8:00 am by the...

Today was serious bucket list work. Majella has wanted to visit Mont Saint Michel ever since she saw a photograph of it in her high school French textbook. John has also had it on his list to the point that when planning a trip to Europe last year he had tried to find a tour that included it.

Dinan had always been on our list of places to visit. Majella had seen a photo of it in the Airbnb listing for our cottage when we were looking for places and it was one of the attractions of Trébry. It was described as being an easy 30 minute drive away and we thought it would be a suitable excursion...

When we woke at 7:00 am this morning there was blue sky visible through the skylights in our bedroom but that was shortlived. By the time we had eaten breakfast the sunshine was gone and the rain had returned. We had no plans for the day other than to go to Mass at Trédaniel, the next village toward Moncontour, at...