We spent a few hours
walking around the ramparts and among the maze of
streets with many gift shops and restaurants, then returned to the
parking area. It is possible to stay overnight for free, but we
thought it
may be noisy and we would have to pay for a second day's parking unless
we left before 9am, so we just used the free borne at the entrance and
returned to the motorhome parking at la Guimorais for a second free night.
After a pleasant walk around the headland we drove around St Malo on
the bypass towards Dinan, and turned off to visit St Suliac, a pretty
Plus Beaux village on the banks of the Rance estuary. We parked at the
signposted grass motorhome parking area for a few hours, then headed to
Dinard and the municipal Camping Port Blanc which was
busy as it was a holiday weekend. We stayed for three days enjoying the
beachside location in sunny
weather, and walked along the rather rocky and narrow cliff path to the
centre of Dinard with its large mansions and villas.
Moving on we followed the coast up to the impressive lighthouse at Cap
Fréhel, luckily in brilliant sunshine as it was shrouded in dense fog when we last visited in 2010.
stone piles at Cap Fréhel
After a night at a campsite near Erquy we took faster roads
to bypass St Brieuc and Guingamp and pulled in to the free aire at
Lannion. It was about a mile to the centre of the riverside town with a
few old timber framed buildings, and bridges decorated with
flowers. The next day we drove to the coast at Saint-Michel-en-Greve
and followed
the route touristique to Locquirec, then through St Jean du Doigt to
Primel- Trégastel. We discovered motorhomes weren't welcome here so we
turned inland,
bypassing Morlaix, to reach Saint Thegonnec where we found a pleasant free
aire just
across from the interesting parish close with its church, ossuary and
large Calvary cross.
Now crossing the centre of Brittany, we turned off the main road to
visit the hilltop chapel of Saint Michel high on the moorlands of the Monts
d'Aree, and then on to the free aire at Huelgoat. We enjoyed a pleasant
lakeside walk to the village and the woodland paths, beside the chaos of
large boulders, to reach the massive Rocher Tremblant, which no longer rocks!
Saint Herbot near Huelgoat
Saint Herbot rose window
Leaving Huelgoat, after a few kilometres we came across an English style
curch of Saint Herbot in a wooded valley, which had an amazing interior with intricate wood carvings and many stained
glass windows.
