RE-UPLOAD: Issues Fixed – Day 1 – Arriving in Brittany and Amazing Motorhome Aire Discovery

RE-UPLOAD: Issues Fixed – Day 1 – Arriving in Brittany and Amazing Motorhome Aire Discovery

Welcome to the channel. This is the first episode  which will document our journey by motorhome, all the way from Cork to Roscoff  in France, down through France, over the Pyrenees and to the west coast of Spain to Santiago de Compostela. So, the crossing from Cork to Roscoff was pretty rough with me rolling

Left and right in my bed the whole night with very little sleep. But we disembarked at Roscoff  and headed straight to Morlaix. Now Morlaix is famous for its very impressive aqueduct,    and we also get to explore some of its cobbled streets with old medieval wooden buildings. Now, having stocked up on baguettes at Morlaix, 

The plan was to head straight to Nantes, which is about four hours away, and spend the night there. But, sometimes it’s about the journey and not the destination, so we never made it to Nantes. However, we did discover this amazing motorhome aire not far from Rennes,  so we stayed there instead.

So, keep watching to find out more.   So, we barely made check-in at  Ringaskiddy yesterday.   It was actually very stressful. We just arrived there an hour before departure… Oh! That’s nice here – I’m going to show you that. Let’s look at that! [TITANIC – Final Anchor Position, Roches Point]

[Cork Harbour – second largest natural harbour in the world, after Port Jackson, Sydney] After a visit to the supermarket, some French cheese and a bite to eat,    we headed down to the waterfront,  turned right, and there before us was the most beautiful aqueduct. The ‘Viaduct du Morlaix’ was first opened in 1865.

 It’s 62 meters high and is 292 meters in length. Now just under the viaduct is the church  of Saint-Mélaine.   The church was built at the end of the 15th century by the ‘Beaumanoir’ workshop of architects.  The church is built in a flamboyant gothic style and is dedicated to Saint Melaine de Rennes.

So we continued up here up this little street,     and we came across what are called ‘maisons à pondalez’, which means overhanging houses.     Now these were constructed in the 16th century by linen merchants,   and they were built on  three stories around a monumental fireplace, 

A winding central staircase, and wooden indoor walkways named ‘ponts d’allée’.   We’re trying to get to Santiago  de Compostela   in northwest Spain.  Kind of a little pilgrimage. This is  day one. Let’s see if we get there! We have three weeks to do it and get back.

Will we make it? Who knows! I’ve had a few issues with the camper,   on and off – mechanical issues. So really, a lot depends on that.  What a lovely spot to park-up for the night.   Now just over there  where my finger is pointing,

We pulled in there to a car park for lunch. Then I took a stroll and saw there was a paid place,   across the way.   So, we crossed to Roscoff last night, and boy was it rough.   We raced and just got to Ringaskiddy in Cork about an hour  before… just basically in time for check-in, 

[Don’t tell them you only live 20 minutes away] which was fine. We did manage that. We just saw the sign for this town… We saw the motorhome sign – ‘services aire’. I said “look, let’s just try this” and we pulled in and we found that car park, there.

And I took a stroll across here,   over here, and then I found the paid place. And so, I went back to the van and said,   “you know what, I’m just too tired. Let’s just get a good night’s sleep, let’s stay here, relax for the day”. We found it quite by accident.

It’s about €6.40 per night and two Euros extra for electricity.     We went to bed about six o’clock, on the ship.    This group of 10 teenagers decided to congregate outside the door. They were just so loud.    I might have got my time frames mixed up.

Now we’re not going to walk all the Camino or anything like that.    We’re just going to drive along.   We’ll probably do a bit of walking here and there.   Actually, where I’ve walked now is somewhat uninspiring. Let’s walk back over here. Let’s look at the jogger. There she goes. Another lap.

[Run Forrest, Run] We were really planning to come into France and go north  to the Netherlands and into Denmark maybe.   And we’d recently watched the movie ‘The Way’ with Martin Sheen.    If you haven’t seen it, I do recommend it. It’s a good movie. And so, we said “Yeah,

that’s not a bad idea. Let’s drive along… let’s go to Santiago”.  So this is day one. This is Broons. It’s kind of an ideal spot if you’ve had a   terrible crossing, you’re very tired. It”s a lovely place just to start off, 

Reset yourself, get a good night’s sleep in a  lovely environment – and it’s spelled B-R-O-O-N-S. And it’s a really fabulous place.   It’s very relaxed, not expensive, nicely laid out. There’s electricity there, some nice pitches, grass and hard pitches. You can just have another look there  now again – it’s getting dark.

[END OF DAY 1] [THE ROAD TO SANTIAGO]

This is a re-upload to address issues that needed fixing in the original video.

Join us as we make our way by motorhome from Cork to Santiago de Compostela in Spain and back. Day one kicks off as we land in Roscoff Brittany, and head to Morlaix. Not having slept for 2 nights we head off in search of a place to park up and find an amazing motorhome aire.

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Ringakiddy Port, Cork – ///foyers.staggering.writings
Intermarche Supermarket, Morlaix – ///organic.tamed.bongo
Aire de la Planchette, Broons, Brittany – ///boastful.chain.ramping

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