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Advice on places to stop - Roscoff to Vendee

  • 16-06-2008 8:18am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 724 ✭✭✭


    We will be travelling from Roscoff to the Vendee and would like to take the drive slowly, making a couple of stops on the way. Its about 5 and half hours to our destination. Any ideas of where would be a good place to detour en route? We will be taking the route via Rennes and Nantes but don't want to drive into any city or large town.

    Somewhere that would have a restaurant open for an early lunch would be ideal!
    Thanks.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    Only a modest detour if you are going via Rennes:
    Fougères, just a small distance to the east, to see a fine lump of a chateau, very attractive gardens, and a nice town. Some cheap and cheerful eateries near the chateau, but I would choose to lunch in the restaurant attached to Hotel des Voyageurs. Then another short hop to Vitré to ramble around a medieval city, very picturesque.
    Rennes itself is very nice, and easier to drive into than many cities.

    Alternatively, about 40 miles south of Rennes you can find La Gacilly, a pretty village with a specialism in crafts -- about 30 workshops/retail outlets. You can hire a boat there and do a 2-3 hour trip on the river, which I am told is very beautiful (I plan to do it myself this summer).

    Early lunch for Irish people is no problem: service starts at 12.00 almost everywhere.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 724 ✭✭✭muckety


    Thanks for that. I can't see la gacilly on the map (yet) but it sounds lovely. We will be travelling south from Rennes on the N137 towards Nantes. Is it far off this do you know?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭gally74


    Anyone have any more recommendations


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