La Vie à Quatre Roues! Jour 2

Château de Josselin, Brittany

Arriving in Saint Malo, we headed straight to Le Barrage de la Rance where we parked up and enjoyed breakfast looking out to sea. The engine started first time on the ferry, but not so when we went to leave our breakfast spot. M then spent a couple of hours working on the starter motor, in the rain, before finally fixing the problem. While he was doing so, I watched the yachts sailing in and out of the barrage’s locks (see extra), and went down into the turbine halls inside the tidal power station’s visitor centre.

Back on the road, we headed to Paimpont in the heart of the mystical Brocéliande forest for a picnic lunch and a wander around the lake with views across to the abbey (see extra). Oh, and a tasty local Lancelot beer! It was still very overcast but had turned very warm.

Final stop of the day, and our home for the night in the local Aire, was Josselin, a lovely old medieval village. The sun appeared just in time for a stroll through the ancient streets, past the Château and down to the river. To celebrate our first night in France, we ate out in the town square and had traditional... Pizza (only because the Crêperie had shut!).

Wherever we’ve been, people have come up to us admiring the Citroen HY Van, and telling us stories of how it reminds them of their younger days. On the road people wave or toot their horns. Hopefully we’ll continue to make people happy as we journey on, and hopefully M’s new trick of tapping the starter motor with a metal spanner to get the engine started will continue to help us to journey on!

(Thank you for your kind comments, stars and hearts for yesterday’s blip. Sorry for my absence. A backblip posted from Nantes...)