Travelling west

Since i last talked to you, where have i been? Mont St M was like Disney land. Mega crowded, lots of expensive shops and massive, massive queues so I gave up on that and headed west. I went to St Malo which was fairly similar. I stayed for two nights so spent a good proportion of the day off cycling around the town exploring. I found a supermarket and lots of schemes. I got the boat to Dinar the next day and then followed a cycle path the short ride to Dinan which I quite liked. The campsite was full of fellow tourers and after chatting to one very persistent (I'm diagnosing aspergers here) I had a revelation. Why was I planning to spend hours -nay, days- cycling to places I didn't want to see when I could just do as my many fellow cyclists were doing and get the train.

So, that's what I did.

I got the train from Dinan, back to Dol De Bretange then to Rennes where I made the final change (ended up walking a fully loaded bike down the stairs as the queue for the lift was far too long for the 5 minutes left before the train arrived) to Brest.

As a city, Brest doesn't have that much going for it. And the miles of road works (trams, who knew) made it almost impossible to find the site I am on now. But, using the information points and some fairly useless maps, I made it here.

Now I am going to put on my least smelly clothes and spend the evening in the bar. Tomorrow I'm heading further west and maybe to some islands, or something!