Brittany and Normandy. The area was a hive of conflict in times past and was disputed over for nigh on 300 years by the French and the English. Sounds like a precursor for the Rugby semi finals but I'll come to that later.Brittany first up and on arriving the architecture appeared to be plucked direct from the English rural scene. Hang on England is part of Britain I think. Britainy Put 2 and

Posted: July 27th, 2008 under Upper Normandy.
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We ended up renting a car for the few days that we were here in Rouen so we actually never really spent too much time in Rouen itself our hotel was about 20 minutes or so they said outside of Rouen. The first day it took us over 2 hours trying to find our hotel google maps did not help what so ever Google maps has everything based on road names but over here all the directions are based on c

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On Thursday the 16th Fab and Delph showed me round Quirebon which was a peninsular close to where they lived. After this I caught the train to Rennes where Julia picked me up and took a small drive to a place called Saille close to Guerande close to St Nazaire close to Nantes in Brittany west coast ish you get the picture where Julia and Alex was staying while they are back in NZ for a f

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No bag. British Airways up to 25000 bags lost.Finally we are all together and in the car.Off to Normandy France.The Memorial and grave site was very powerful. To stand there and try to understand and experience of these solders was pretty intense. So many have sacrificed their lives for the freedom of Northern Europe. We walked around the grounds took lots of photos and visited the bunkers on th

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No car no bag.Al stays in Paris waiting for his bag.Lisa and Mo Leave Paris and go to Le Havre and stay in the totally strange Etap Hotelhellip.bunk beds no phone bathroom and shower made from one piece of molded fiberglasshellip just a general level of strangeness. Other than the ability to on the commode and shower at the same time this place has no redeeming qualities

Posted: July 27th, 2008 under Upper Normandy.
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