The Journey to Plessala

The train journey to Rennes was nice and smooth and quite pleasant - and I spent most of it asleep!

We managed to find the car hire place - just not where all of of the other car hire place at the station. Our travel beastie for this part of the journey is a Opel Corsa.

Driving on the right side of the road is not too much of an issue and surprisingly, changing gears with the ‘wrong’ hand hasn’t been an issue… although every now and then the left hand leaves the wheel heading towards the non-existent gear stick.

The ol' trusty (and dusty) TomTom (with updated France maps) was working a treat and we were of on the way to Plessala - the cottage owners only gave descriptive directions - no direct co-ordinates, so the TomTom was to just guide us to Lamballe and it did that quite successfully.

Driving into Lamballe we found nice cafeteria place for some much needed lunch - an v.early breakfast (7AM), a two hour train ride and an hour in the car generated a bit of a hunger. We also made use of this stop to call into the supermarket to pick up some provisions.

We now entrusted ourselves to the directions from the cottage owners…

All went reasonably well and we found the cottage - although the sign to the cottage itself behind a tree didn’t help!