Brittany Bretagne trip October 2004
Saturday, Oct 2 - United - SF - 10 hour flight, 9 hours difference
11:45 for 1:00 flight
Sunday, Oct 3 - arrive Paris 10:20 am
1:38 SNCF to Rennes
Monday, Oct 4 - Rennes
Grill restaurant - Gigot d'agneau
Brasserie (pres du Gare) Soupe du Poison, Canard, Cidre - $ but good
Tuesday, Oct 5
11 am pick up Hertz rental car
---> Redon - nice old center with church: Turkish shish kebab - on canals
---> Malestroit - tourist office: "trying hard" - medieval center
- having contest to attract
---> Ploermel (yuch)
---> Rennes - Tandoori in old town - got badly lost
Wednesday, Oct 6 -
---> Redon ---> Vannes
Port de Plaisance: salade marine & gigot d'aigneau (quite good)
Presqu'il de Conleau: Hotel de Roof $78 view - walk along water [STARRED] - gorgeous
sunshine!
Thursday, Oct 7 -
Drove around Presque'il - Ruys
Sarzeau - flea market in town center - got map from immobilier - Viet food.
---> north coast of gulf (oyster farms)
---> Arzon (Port de Plaisance)
---> south coast
La Saline & to the east: Castle de Susciné - go back for books
---> Penzin: Hotel Mur de Roy (sat on plage)
gourmet dinner! cidre, bran bread rolls, appetizer: sardines + cream of artichoke,
soup: huitres, agneau, roti camembert + salad, pear with chocolate sauce + ice
cream + whip cream - mint tea (+ morsels of fruitcake, marshmallow, chocolate
with graham & guava jam) ahhhhh - but too full.
Friday, Oct 8 -
Drove east towards Muzillac (more farmland), then north (through Questembert)
to Rochefort-en-Terre (beautiful cité de charactere - well-preserved and
kept ancient center, nice tourist office.
12:00 grill: salad and lamb - cat & man with attitude.
Drove west to Auray - cramped but not bad, finally found tourist office.
Drove south through Locmariaquer to Kerpenhir - not bad but signs of suburbs.
Drove west through TRINITE-SUR-MER !!! port full of boats - to CARNAC-PLAGUE
!!! YES!
Best Western Celtique - 17, Ave de Kermailo
www.trogoff-immobilier.com
www.vacances-villas.com
Immobiliere du Chateau 97 52 27 21, Avenue de Kermario
Saturday, Oct 9 -
(immobiliere) Rain
PLOUHARNEL - nice center, however, the little lots are on their way
+ Erdeven
Hennebont - o.t. & lunch in Barre - tried to find hotel, tried to go up river
- too much rain!
Retour de Carnac
Immobiliere across from import store (near tourist office)
Isabelle Tourbaiewski - AETIM, 61 Avenue de Druides 546340 [STARRED]
www.aetim-immobilier.com / aetim.immobiier@wanadoo.fr / 02 97 52 07 79
Sat at beach and read
Tropical y restaurant: dinner (blah)
Ibis 7x E by Thalasotherapie
Sunday, Oct 10 - major rain and lightning, so headed south
MUZILLAC [STARRED]
(Avis Immobilier - www.avis-immobilier.fr - 02 97 41 67 87 - Rue René Bazin)
Agence Jego Immobiliere [STARRED] + Denis Jego - Christine Degoise, Architects
- talked, got her card - 02 97 41 48 73
LE ROCHE BERNARD !!! - on the road into the town
Great lunch - Saumon fumé + boeuf + creme brulee
& walk through nice old part (artists +) rock above water
(Agence du Port 02 99 90 85 26 / info@agence-du-port.fr - 3, Rue Basse Notre Damme
56130 - apartements, terrains constructibles)
(Agence Bretagne-Sud 02 99 90 77 57 - apartments, maisons $)
> www.4immobilier.tm.fr - 02 23 10 15 00 - Agence 4% Immobilier - across from
church - road running out of old city to northeast & NE of main road. <<<
---> (towards St. Nazaire) Hertignac, St. Lyphand (borders Briere)
---> Guérande - walled old city, nice walk
---> La Baule - big resort
Hotel Fetan - nice old house & couple
Casino: ok dinner
Monday, Oct 11 - major rain
---> Le Roche Bernard - lunch - in the old part: mussels! + boeuf "bien
cui"
---> Muzillac
---> Vannes: gare (couldn't return car there)
Anne de Bretagne hotel 4x
(bummed)
Tuesday, Oct 12
---> Josselin: Immobilier 02 97 73 64 78, 19 Rue Olivier de Clisson 56120
---> Broceliande foret / Paimpont - where the sun beamed
---> Ploermel: immobilier
Hotel le Roi Arthur 7x + dinner
Wednesday, Oct 13 - rain
www.ouestfrance-immo.com ??
Taupont - looked at longere
Rennes - retourner la voiture - 590 = ca $800
gare - entrecote + tea
gare ---> Paris Montparnasse
Ibis Hotel - teeny extra room 70 C
Walk: bought umbrella in shopping mall, Pier 1: Wild Places book
Next door: Japanese restaurant
Rain
Thursday, Oct 14 - grey but dry
Walked to St. Germain
Rue de Rennes --> St Germain --> Pont Neuf (pick up!)
retour --> jewelry, scarves, books
Cafe Jude: fish salad + entrecote
Louvre: bookstore - bits of sun
all afternoon in Louvre bookstore
Crepes (noisy and got crowded)
Started to rain again.
Friday, Oct 15 - Rain, darn
Moved to Hôtel du Départ - 19, rue du Départ (she tricked
me)
Walked up Rue St. Germain (more nice shops)
Across Seine at Rue St. Michel
On Rive Droit - east on Rue Rivoli
At Ville Vielle: recycling exhibit
Further east: Pier 1: Mille Merveilles book
Further east: Dôme - lunch (foie gras + entrecote)
To Places des Vosges (the place I remembered)
To Bastille circle
Down Blvd Henri IV (postcards)
Up Rue St. Paul! "village" - wonderful
The Red Wheelbarrow, English bookstore
Chocolat
Soaps (monastery store)
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Do more: Odeon area
Rue Dante = comic book stores
Rue Monsieur le Prince = Chinese medicine store
Saturday, Oct 16
Omelette & tea across bridge
Louvre: bookstore (tried to sit down)
Back to Musée d'Orsay (art nouveau, but only paintings) - just did bookstore.
Back over Seine to Musée des Beaux Arts (far end of Louvre) <<<
this is the one: fashion, jewelry!
First ate lunch at Italian restaurant: onion soup, veal with marsala - sense of
humor! I miss it.
Musée des Beaux Arts
Gallery Art Club: Volodia Popov +
Further east: "Louvre des Antiquaires"! (one big building)
Gallé glass, Majorelle furniture - finalement!
[outside - north of Louvre is all tourist trash]
Last chocolate on the way home.
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(from 2004-15 CD: Brittany - Itinerary.doc)
In Brest:
See Brest harbor and Pointe de St Mathieu
See Calvary at Plougastel-Daoulas
See Calvary at Guimiliau
Go to Rumengol – site of chapel built by King Gradlon
**Go to Tregarvan to see statue of King Gradlon
**Go to Barnanez in Plouezoch (by 2:00 pm)
**stop off at Plouaret to see the Church and Dolmen with the Seven Sleepers
Plouarzel to see the Kerloas (Kerveatoux) menhir, then go to Morvan’s at
Paimpont.
In Paimpont:
Go to Broceliande
Roche aux Fees (fairy stone) south of Rennes
Fougeres and St. Malo:
Fougeres Chateu – Snake woman at the Eglise St-Sulpice (Church outside
of the castle – Snake woman is on the right as you face the altar—look
hard – Mary breast-feeding Christ in the Chapel Notre-Dame des Marais –
on the left of the nave).
***St. Malo – Maybe take Cedric?
Rennes
**Mount Dol
Ile de Brehat
Dinan
Dinard
Mont St. Michel
Douarnenez:
Craft workshop at Locronan
Bigouden museum at Pont l’Abbe
Prehistory museum at St. Guenole
Boat museum at Douarnenez
Poldavid
Pointe du Raz
Ile de Sein
Ty-ar-C’horriket at Poullan-sur-Mer
See Le Juch
See Concarneu (Musee de la Peche)
See Pont Aven
Douarnanez and Quimper
Go to the Mons d’Arree to see Yeun
Cathedral
Carnac
St. Michael