Revolutionary Rants

We have just returned from a fantastic week in Brittany. Sadly the rain has now set in to North Devon and the world is in the grip of a pandemic, but hey-ho. I have a new job, which I am starting soon.

Back to our hols… We used Condor ferries, Weymouth to St. Malo and were rather shocked to discover that we would be stopping off at Guernsey and Jersey en route! The crossings were both rough and there was quite a bit of seasickness however, on the plus side, the loading on/off the ferry was especially efficient. We were no more than 10 minutes getting off on our return journey and the third or forth car off at St. Malo. Oh, and the second car on the ferry at St. Malo, too!

We had booked a lovely gite on the

Port du Dinan

Dinan. The gite was great, fantastic location, large kitchen/sitting room with four person table, lovely double room, nice bathroom, good twin room on the second floor. The only problems we had were that the walls were paper-thin and we were quite disturbed by our neighbours on either side and that there was a big ant problem.

You can walk up to Dinan in about 20 minutes, up the cobbled Rue de la Petite Fort. Dinan is a nice, busy medieval city.

The Port is the cities nicest part, in my opinion, and we enjoyed a nice meal at L’Atelier Gourmand which is just off the bridge on the Dinan side. We both had fish dishes and a beautiful tarte tatin, but we felt the service lacked something generally.

We visited Mont St Michel, which we found hugely disappointing apart from the view of it from afar as it was very tacky and not very attractive inside. We also had went to Cancale, which is nice if very shell-fish orientated!

We walked the round the walls of the old town of St Malo twice, in the sea-mist and the sunshine. We hired bikes for €12 for 24 hours and cycled a lot of the Rance from Dinan in both directions, doing oer 30km in one day and seeing lovely view and a moorhen pecking at a swimming snake! We also had a wonderful day driving along the Cote d’Armor from Dinard (very disappointing again) and saw the fabulous Cap Frehel and the oyster beds along the shore.

We had a absolutely fantastic meal at Le Chalut in St Malo; the €25 per person menu, which was one of the best meals I have had in France (wayyyy better than a €90 per head one I’ve had elsewhere, actually!). Scallops, John Dory with Langoustine sauce and celeriac puree and a poached pear with passion fruit and white wine to finish. Simply glorious.

An excellent holiday!