08/05/18 – 11/05/18 – Le Ville Jehan, Monteneuf, Brittany
Yes, I know we are only a week in to our travels and already running for cover, but the weather in Dinard chilled us to the bone (Over dramatic I know) but it was bitter. What better place to take refuse than mum n dads place about 1.5 hours to the south. No sooner as we’d arrived, the sun was out again and we spent the afternoon in the garden sunbathing. The three of us got a shock when next doors giant dog (at least compared to Marley) turned up in the garden to say hello. Marley was scared and made some unsettling yelps but the owner turned up and took the dog back with him. The next few trips outside, ‘the dog’ kept escaping from garden – desperate to say hello to Marley, what choice did we have but to let him – Of course, he was fine – we were probably more worried than him. We took a couple of cycle tours of the local area. One to Monteneuf where we came across our first baguette vending machine – Only in France! The second slightly further afield to the next village of Augan along one of France many cycle routes/bridle paths. Whilst here, given the forecast for the next week, we decided to take stock and look at our initial route – working our way down the west coast of France in to northern Spain. We worked out that for an extra three hours of driving we could be at the Mediterranean coast for more stable weather so we have decided to do that and work our way around Spain and Portugal in the opposite direction (Clockwise) following the Med. coast. This is one of the positives about not really having any planned itinerary ! Thanks to Mum n Dad for letting us stay in you lovely home from home XX
