Sunday, October 9 we relocated to Vannes in southern Brittany. On the way we made two stops. First we went to Guérande. We loved this town! Even on a Sunday it was lively. We enjoyed walking through the streets and admiring the beautiful buildings. Before we left we had lunch outdoors in front of a large church. Crepes of course because Brittany is where they come from. It’s too bad we didn’t have more time there. I don’t know why, but I only took a few pictures.

Next we went to Rochefort-en-Terre, another one of France’s Beautiful Villages. I can see why, but we enjoyed Guérande more.

We arrived in Vannes and dropped our stuff off at our apartment. It’s on a small street in the old town and we couldn’t park there, so we followed the hosts directions to the free parking lot about an 8 minute walk away. Unfortunately he didn’t know about some road construction and I’ll just say it was a very stressful challenge to get there. Very stressful. We are only here for two nights and we decided the car was staying parked until we leave. The studio apartment was great, much better than a hotel room. It had everything…except toilet paper and hand soap. We didn’t even notice that until we got back from the grocery store. Thankfully we had bought some TP when we realized there wasn’t going to be enough for our stay in another apartment and I had grabbed an extra little hand soap from a hotel we had stayed in. There was dish soap in the kitchen, so we used that. The host of this place was very attentive and when I told him about lacking those necessities when we left he was very apologetic. He said the cleaning team must have forgotten them. I would stay there again.

On Monday we went to the Vannes tourist information office hoping for a walking tour. They didn’t have one, but gave us a map with 3 self guided walks, which we did. She also suggested we take the little tourist train that many French towns have because they provided commentary. We did that too, and it was a total waste of time. We both thought Vannes seems like a nice place, but it’s hard to tell what it’s like the rest of the time because Sundays and Mondays are typically slow days in France. We struggled to find anywhere to eat and what we did find wasn’t very satisfying.