Le Grand Tour de Bretagne - Jour 19

Pouancé, Maine-et-Loire

A cooler day, only 35 degrees! A day that went pear-shaped...

First stop of the day: the fortified medieval village of Pouancé

Second stop of the day: Château de Craon (discovered it was only open afternoons!)

Third stop of the day: Laval for a coffee stop and more Brocante shopping (extra 1)

Fourth stop of the day: the hilltop village of Sainte-Suzanne. Arriving at the campsite at 1pm, with the plan to spend the afternoon resting in the shade, we discovered the gate locked until 4pm. So after a quick stroll around the village, we decided to plough on through the heat of the day and drive further north. (extra 2)

Fifth stop of the day: somewhere on the road to Domfront when a French campervan drove into the back of us! The driver immediately admitted he was completely at fault, that he wasn’t paying attention. Given the noise and force of the impact, the van came off lightly: broken rear lights and squished bumper. But it still put a real dampener on the day, and took me about an hour to stop shaking...

Sixth stop of the day: the hilltop fortified village of Domfront and a lovely shady, tranquil campsite, just what we needed after the day we’d had! At 9.30pm, after listening to a concert in the village square, it was still 31 degrees, another hot sleepless night... (extra 3)

(Second backblip posted this evening. Thank you for your recent kind comments and stars, am gradually catching up with the world of Blip.)