Three Late Summer Days in Brittany
Dates: Thursday 22nd September (evening) - Sunday 25th September (evening) Mileage: ~750 miles in total After an enjoyable summer that included a motorbike trip (or three), we reluctantly returned from our late summer family holiday back to the UK. With children back at University or otherwise engaged and with the weather changing, I craved for one more bike trip to look forward to before the winter. I suggested to my wife that we take a lazy short break, on the motorbike, to Brittany. She agreed, on the understanding that there would be no tents involved, so I set about taking a day off work and planning the weekend. We decided to head down towards a town (Auray) in South-Western Brittany which I had last visited on a motorbike trip with friends some 20 years ago. We booked an overnight ferry with a cabin which left Portsmouth on Thursday night at 23:00 and took us down to Cherbourg where we arrived refreshed and eager to go at 08:00. The weather was a little drizzly so we hea