11th September and we are on our way to France to spend a holiday in south brittany with our friends Pam and Cliff
We were on the 8.30pm ferry Portsmouth to St malo arriving 8.30am on Wednesday 12th. We were soon on our way down to a little village called Quil
The weather was bright and sunny and we soon arrived at our friends Sally & Phill’s cottage
The cottage outside
The swimming pool
The grounds
the dining room
The kitchen
the lounge
during the next days we toured around the south of brittany
The lock cottage in the village
The market place questembert
Rochefort en terre
Rochefort en terre
La Boule the people collecting cockles on the beach
La Boule Beach
La Roche Bernard and Bernard standing by the bridge
Views from the bridge
Vannes
Josselin the Chatteau
Josselin town hall
The church Josselin
Ploermel and the world clock
The Church Ploermel
Bern been in for a quick confessional
all to soon it came to an end and it was time to pack our bags and head up to St Malo where
we had booked a room for the night ready for our crossing to Portsmouth the next day.
We were up bright and early and headed to the supermarket to get a fresh French stick and a bottle of wine
for our picnic on board the ferry for our 6 hour crossing. We headed to the port and got into the lines at the
terminal when this lady came about giving out leaflets saying Brittany Ferries was on strike.
What a blow!! we went back to the cottage to decide what we could do with the aid of the internet. and decided the only
way was to drive to Calais which was 400 miles away so next morning wee set off on this mammoth drive with flasks and food
for the journey we arrived for the 5.15pm P & O ferry and away we went saving the hour difference we were going to carry
on until dark then find a premier inn for the night BUT we seemed to have passed the fatigue area and carried on arriving home just after Midnight
But a great holiday was had b y all of us.
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to soon it came to an end and it was time to pack our bags and head to the formula I we had booked in St |Malo for night
ready for our morning crossing to Portsmouth.
