Biking holiday to Brittany, France

[JeffT]

Right well me, my brother and my dad went to Brittany for a week so thought I would post a little bit about it here.

We stayed in one place for the week, a hamlet Called Kervril, south west of Rennes.
Our 2 main reasons for this were firstly cost, the cottage belonged to a friend of mine so we go it nice and cheap, and secondly my dad has recently had a quadruple by-pass so if he wasn't feeling up to too much, he could stay at the cottage. (Although how wrong we were, he out rode me and my brother!)

As we stayed in one place, and it was very quiet, we didn't really meet loads of people like some who travel from place to place.

What we did find were some amazing roads though!
What we also found was the autocoms are great, but only after shit loads of tweaking to get the vox to work right. Oh how we wished we had used PTT!

Bikes ready for the off on Friday tea time, my Divvy 600, my brothers CBR600F and my Dad's CBR1100XX:

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We travelled from Poole to Cherbourg on the saturday morning, way too early int he morning for me!:
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The ride from Cherbourg to Kervril was fairly boring, N roads most of the way but the main aim was to just get to the cottage.
A stop after ten minutes to get the waterproofs on and then one for fuel half way were the highlights! My radio was playing up so no coms for we on the way down.

Some pack dinner and beer had us setlled in on the first night:
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First job Sunday morning, go get provisions. Now its bank holiday weekend, and unlike over here, EVERYTHING shuts. So we rode till we found a little supermarket and stocked up on Beer and other essential items!

The woman in the shop just couldnt understand why we found this so funny:
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One of the things we soon noticed was how religious the area was. Even tiny little towns had comparitivly large churches, most of them very nice ones at that:

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After collecting the food we then spent the day riding around the local (ish) area just having a butchers and trying to find some good roads, which wasn't tricky.
It kept raining on and off but didn't spoil the fun too much, the only thing that seems to open on bank holidays here is Maccy D's, so when it got really heavy, we sheltered in them and had a cuppa!


The following day brough a slight hang over and some lovely weather. A quick look on the GPS (and a picture of one of the office monkeys!) and we headed for the area between where we were staying and Vannes which is on the coast.

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I can't remember the number of the D road we found but bugger me, it was awesome, a really testing road which threw at you just about everything, long sweeping bends, tight downhill hairpins, long fast straights, the lot!
The thing that amazed me was the road surfaces. These were D roads, the equivelant of our B roads, but the surfaces were brilliant with loads of grip and the white lines there aren't 2" thick like over here, so you can ride on them cranked over without fear!.

Anyway, a few pics of that particular road.

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A stop in Vannes for some lucnh and we did return route.

Following day we decided to head to Mt St Michel. (And today we have all 3 autocoms working spot on, if you have never tried using coms, do, it rocks and is dead useful, especially when I kept hanging back and doing 5 laps of a roundabout, only to not be able to see the others!)

Again found some cracking roads and had a nice bit of lunch when we got there. My brother did manager to sneeze whilst eating apple donut and bring some out his nose, we found it bloody funny, locals seemed to lack a sense of humour!

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Donut post nasal passage!:

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Sight seeing done we take a different route back and stop in the town local to our cottage for a cold beer.

Sat outside we get chatting to a friendly brit. Suddenly we noticed the local dogs sniffing round my bike.

Then we watched in amazement as 2 of them took it in turns to piss up my front wheel! Then, to celebrate, they had a quick shag next to my bike.
Sadly we were all pissing ourselves laughing too much to get to the camera in time, but we did get a picture of one of the offenders!

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Following day we decide to go and find our home towns twin, Paimpol.
Again, some cracking roads and good weather made for a spirited ride, and the touristy picture next to the sign!

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Now whilst sat on the quayside having lunch, the bar owners dog decided to pop over for a feed, so we chucked it a few chips and it seemed happy. Then the little shit decided to trot over to my Dad's bike, and wizz up his front wheel! To happen twice in 2 days is jsut weird! Here is the offending little bugger, it didn't get any more chips after that stunt!

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The ride back home found my brothers name-sake town, well almost!
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We managed to end up in the middle of a big wind farm on the way home, and I couldnt believe jsut how huge these things are, was quite an amazing site and we actually slowed down to have a look (think my divvy was quite pleased of the break!)

We decided to go all out that night and had a bbq, cooked by yours truely and wash down with a decent amount of 1664!
As you can see, I am a comedy genius!:
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I had to do 4 trips like this to the bottle bank and got a look of strange looks from the local farmers!
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OK last day ( i think, kinda lost track but ya get the gist)

The road to Vannes which we had ridden earlier in the week was so good we decided to do it again. Really hot day, nice grippy road and lots of grins (plus 1 or 2 brown trouser moments!

A few picks of the day:
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The works monkeys got a ride too:

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And a couple of vids too:

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Well it was time to get the luggage on and head back to Cherbourg. After the last day on that nice road both mine and Dan's back tires were in a pretty bad way, so a gentle ride was called for. Still managed to get there 2 hours early so a maccy d's and some chatting about next years destination was in order.

A cracking week had by all and a lovely area to ride in.

Big Kudos to my old man who having not long a go had major heart surgery, rode quicker than us for the whole week and definatley put us in our place!

Oh and the obligatory pee stops!

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and the extra big trolly:

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and a quick snooze near the ferry port

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[MalcolmT]

Nice pic's. Looks like you had a good time.
How did you get on with the Frenchies, I noticed you said they lacked a sense of humour ?

[JeffT]

[PsychoHippy]

Looks like you had fun
There are some really nice roads out there and seeing those pics has got me all excited about our trip out there in September
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