Tuesday travels. . . .Pontorson for a meal.

Pontorson is situated about 10 kilometres from Mont St-Michel and we went there purely to get our evening meal.  We had read about this particular restaurant in the pamphlets in our Gîte but the restaurant was quite busy when we went later in the evening so we decided to go to another restaurant and we…

Tuesday Travels – Pont-Aven

A visit to another beautiful village in Brittany.  This lovely little village is well known in Brittany for the proliferation of artists who live or used to live in the vicinity and have used picturesque Pont-Aven as their source of inspiration.  The most famous of the artists is Paul Gauguin.  At the various sites which…

Mur de Bretagne and the Abbey of Bon-Repos

When we were recently in France we were staying in Brittany so almost all of our travels were within Brittany.  Close to where we were staying was the Lac du Guerlédan and at the western end is the Abbaye de Bon-Repos.  It is a beautiful setting for an abbey but unfortunately it was allowed to…