Our Eastern Europe jaunt 2018

Friday 25 th May. We were on the last leg of our trip heading for the coast somewhere not to far from Roscof and he ferry back to the U.K. on Monday. We left Laval and skirted around Renes then stopped in a small commune called Josselin and had coffee and a baguette sandwich. This was an attractive small French town with a large square obviously used as a market on Samedis but the rest of the time was a free “camper-stop” and indeed there were probably 10 campers / motor-homes parked there. We arrived in Beg Mail as we had previously had a family holiday here but recognising nothing and feeling it now had little to commend it went on to Benodet. This town was more developed then we remembered it but there were no camping facilities open near the centre. Our GPS then found a site called Le Helles on the opposite side of the estuary from Benodet in a village called Sainte Marine. A nice reasonable sized site quiet and access to the beach 600 metres from the little port. Saturday ...

Thursday 24 May Today was Chateau hunting day! We found the lovely chateau at St Aubin, 10 miles away and when we stopped for lunch at Myennes and went for a little walk along the Loire we came across another one badly in need of love and care! We were now heading in the Brittany direction and between Orleans and Le Mans we got a bit lost but saw signs to a chateau so drove around some pretty lanes but guess what, it was hidden behind the trees! Next place, a little village called Bouloire was very picturesque so we stopped and took a pic there instead. We drove on and ended up in Laval, the capital of the Myenne department. We camped in the centre of the city alongside the river Myenne under the colossal viaduct. We walked by the river to choose a restaurant and passed a large square where youths were playing boule and a sort of skittle game too. It was all very attractive as is the city. We notice the prices are going up the nearer we get to home. Seeing rhododendrons ...