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| Chateau Gontier |
Our usual views of lakes, beaches, castles and other gorgeous sites was usurped a few nights ago when we stopped in the village of Vihiers only to be welcomed with a stunning view of some urinals.
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| Distant dunnies |
It was only for one night, for obvious reasons, then we headed to Chateau Gontier (sung to the tune of ‘Tarara Boom Dee Ay’) and had a lovely river view that was only marred by an evening of several chaps on two-stroke motorbikes whizzing around Dickie until the gendarmes came and scared them off.
Fougeres, a medieval city in Brittany, was calling next.
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| Wonky house |
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| Fairytale castle of Fougeres |
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| Church colours |
We enjoyed a stroll around the town which actually had OPEN shops after 2pm, checked out a couple of massive churches, and wondered about living in the medieval village at the base of the magnificent chateau which was, of course, closed. We decided that, although they look lovely, it is likely that they would be cold and dark so we’ve decided against selling up and moving into a 12th century house in France.
We’ll stick to the van for now but at the moment it’s getting harder to find water. The French tend to turn the usual camping-car water filling stations off at this time of the year due to the cold. We did find some today after a few fruitless stops but it meant we got to check out some rather cute villages along the way to our current stop, Dol-de-Bretagne. At Bouzages La Perouse we came across a maison des voeux (house of wishes) and a grave with the campest statue we’ve ever seen, and at Sougen I had a minuscule chat in French to the coach of the local football team.
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| Strangely camp gravestone/statue |
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| House of Wishes |
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| Come in, my pretties |
Tomorrow we will visit the tallest dolmen in France.
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