Saint-Pol Roux
, a French poet (1861-1940), says: "You see, here the world ends." And a glance at the map shows that between the English Channel the north and the south Atlantic in the Brittany
the extreme wing of the western world is towards the setting sun, that is towards the west. Asia and Europe end here.
This illustrated travelogue can move in two weeks, of course, not all the places and locations that have been in the travel guide "
travel guide Brittany / Normandy for Camper and Caravan " listed and discussed.
Nevertheless, here and there, samples are made, how they have changed the conditions for our campers and caravan holiday-makers, has been issued since the guide. Perhaps
can discover new places and previous data are completed. That is the goal of the trip. And of course photos, was given for the first edition of the book for reasons of cost is not much room. For the first edition of
Travel Advice
two detailed research trips to the end of the world "with two different self-expanding-campers were taken (a VW LT 45 Van expansion and a Volkswagen van with an attached Fendt caravan" big trip ") Today, however, we start with a borrowed about 1 year old Luxury Mobile Europe's largest motor home manufacturer HYMER. We will see how this part of Brittany in the high season where it all kind of tourists there teeming, proven!
I was to see if I will not in detail to the tourist region of Bretagne in detail. For further information the interested prospect may think
travel guide for help with which also this year many tourists have spent the best days of the year ".
Here it stands now, freshly picked from the rental office, a luxury mobile top-class with a Mercedes engine: The
Hymer B Star-Line 675
G, an automatic model with leather interior. Excellent, that my disability tricycle fits into the rear garage. The other (normal) bike comes to the bicycle rack at the long end of the RV, where were 3 other bikes would have found the place.
on the roof of an automatic satellite dish, so we are not in the evening with some 1100 programs will be boring.
With this, a laptop, where the number of images are extracted daily from the camera and the ever important first comments will be recorded. This can keep the laptop in the long run its good spirit, is a 12V to-220V converter on board, where the computer can be charged while driving again. also on board the niegelnagelneue Navigon 3110 navigation device that I have mounted on the side window of the cab. The screen is seen by a quick look at the good side. Again and again, to the amusement helps the device that tells a "running gag" in France and over again the same set of womanly voice, and that whenever someone comes to the many many roundabouts:
"Please, one km, the roundabout, left at the 2nd exit. Now, and not the end, I let go of my criticism: The thing has led us in most cases quite reliably through the jungle of cities, but also over the countryside.
was in some cases a good deduction skills very helpful if one of the exits was not a fact, but resulted in an operating area, or in a dead end of a Breton farm ended, or the specified line for a mobile home by hedges and stone walls was limited simply too narrow. But I forgive the device can not, and why I have also returned: On the way it has crashed 3 times (Windows CE operating system) and left us in a rather delicate situation back completely off guard, but still a loss. The French build beautiful large roundabouts. With a crash of the navigation device I stayed so long in each round, had grown up by reading the various signs at the end of a plan that resulted in the end to the traffic circle in the (mostly) to leave the right direction. I usually navigate by map and the sun. But without a map and in misty to rainy weather with no sun simply, the foundations for a good navigation. seems to me that with the GPS devices I do not have much luck. This also applies to my Garmin GPS device that I had purchased for walks or bike rides to do in this travel report for my readers can help, as I would have offered routes and waypoints for download. about 6 weeks before departure I sent the unit to the dealer because it - 1 year after purchase - again and again turned out in the middle of the navigation. The dealer sent the unit to Garmin to Munich, but despite my warnings and the advice that I desperately needed the GPS for the trip, I got it .... 1 days before my return
in the home - as a red alert card in my mailbox. Super, Internet, mail order, super, Garmin! You were helpful, my friends! :-(
Now, going on: The first day we arrive - after packing and filling of drinking water - because of delays in the acquisition of the motor home and a problem with water tanks go first with abundant late, so we only late in the evening the city
Saverne reach in Alsace.
night on the large parking lot (next to about 20 mobile homes) on slightly sloping terrain at the "port de plaisance," the port for (rent) house boats that operate on the channel up and down. Right here, namely in the port, we had stayed a few years ago when we had left the channels in the area on a rental houseboat.
We will try the route to Brittany to spool without all French toll motorways, because for such a large motor home, you pay tolls already strong! As a little tip in advance: Saverne
prefer to deal on the toll highway, if one has no time for the beautiful city and the nearby boat lift. As a pitch for the night can also be used, not far away We will try the route to Brittany to spool without all French toll motorways, because for such a large motor home, you pay tolls already strong! As a little tip in advance: Saverne
Lunéville
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