{"id":2067,"date":"2009-10-12T15:51:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T19:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2014-04-14T15:54:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T19:54:36","slug":"brittany-monday-october-12-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/?p=2067","title":{"rendered":"Brittany, Monday October 12, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike was up early to call Europcar to try to straighten out our lack of rental car.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally he was able to negotiate picking up the car in Auray and dropping it off at Vannes on Saturday when we leave.\u00c2\u00a0 The next obstacle was how to get to Auray, a town on our list to visit anyway.\u00c2\u00a0 Called a taxi and he picked us up and took us to the Europcar rental office for 25 euros.\u00c2\u00a0 Picked up our car, without a hassle, and drove toward the center of town and its Monday morning market.<\/span><\/h2>\n

Found a place to park near the hospital and walked the market and the town.\u00c2\u00a0 At the market, we bought three different cheeses, after being thoroughly entertained by the cheesemaker and his wife; we brought home a Tommes de Montagne\u00c2\u00a0 and Gruyere (cow) and a Bleu de Brebis (sheep).\u00c2\u00a0 The cheesemaker knew only one word of English YES, and the rest of our communication was in poor French and sign language or sounds like MOO and BAA to signify cow or sheep\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cheese.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately, Mike and Glenn missed all the fun and entertainment.<\/p>\n

Next we found some great strawberries (last of the season) and strawberry preserves from a vendor whose table had only strawberries and preserves.\u00c2\u00a0 Just across the way, Glenn and Kimberly found the perfect fabric to make pillows for the cottage\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s porch.\u00c2\u00a0 Glenn handed the vendor money for the fabric, the vendor handed Glenn back the extra, and Kimberly took it from Glenn.\u00c2\u00a0 The vendor laughed and told Glenn in English \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the same in France.<\/p>\n

Auray is built on a hill overlooking the Loch River and boasts old houses and a cute little harbor reached by crossing a stone bridge dating to the 17th century.\u00c2\u00a0 This is where Ben Franklin arrived to seek aid from the French during the US\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Revolutionary War.\u00c2\u00a0 Just across the bridge, we found L\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Armoric, 1& 3 Place St Sauveur, to sit in the sun and eat lunch. Kimberly and I had a lunch special of a \u00c2\u00bd pizza with a salad.\u00c2\u00a0 Glenn and Mike tried to have the plat du jour \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but it was sold out.\u00c2\u00a0 The waitress offered to see if the chef would substitute cod in the special and serve it with sweet potato puree and a celeric charcroute.<\/p>\n

After lunch we explored the St Goustan area, known for galleries and old residences.\u00c2\u00a0 We visited the old church on the top of the hill named for St Goustan, the patron saint of mariners and fisherman. Back down the hill toward the harbor and back across the bridge to the center of town, past the town hall built in 1776 where the market has broken down and there is no trace of its existence.\u00c2\u00a0 On the way back to the car, we visited the Church of St-Gildas with a Renaissance doorway and a baroque altarpiece.<\/p>\n

We found the car and set out through the countryside for La-Trinite-sur-Mer.\u00c2\u00a0 The bright, sunny day was perfect for a ride through the countryside.\u00c2\u00a0 La Trinite is the sailing center and the harbor was chock full of boats of all kinds \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it can hold 1200 boats.\u00c2\u00a0 There were several large racing trimarans moored on which maintenance and improvements were being executed. We strolled along the harbor and its shops.\u00c2\u00a0 Back to the car, we drove down to the Pointe de Keribahn, where the river joins the bay de Quiberon.\u00c2\u00a0 The views were spectacular.<\/p>\n

We found our way back to Carnac and stopped by the Super U to pick up some necessities, like paper towels, wine, fruit, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 Back home we unpacked the supplies and sat down to enjoy our food purchases.\u00c2\u00a0 We started out with a white Sauvignon, one of the cheeses, an apple (La Reine des Reinettes), those fabulous Plougastel strawberries, salmon pate, and a spicy sausage and ended up with a Les Gravelles Bordeaux, as we made plans for dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike was up early to call Europcar to try to straighten out our lack of rental car.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally he was able to negotiate picking up the car in Auray and dropping it off at Vannes on Saturday when we leave.\u00c2\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[732],"tags":[733,740,737,734,738,735,739,736,816],"class_list":["post-2067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carnac","tag-auray","tag-bay-de-quiberon","tag-church-of-st-gildas","tag-europcar","tag-la-trinite-sur-mer","tag-loch-river","tag-pointe-de-keribahn","tag-st-goustan","tag-vannes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}