We’ve been in Josselin a few days now. We had an interesting trip from Paris first taking the TGV to Rennes and from there a bus which stopped at a couple of small villages along the way. We’ve been settling in, finding out how things work, unpacking and making ourselves at home. Yesterday we picked up the car which comes with the house, from a local garage, it’s an old Ford Fiesta diesel which sounds like a tractor but it seems to go alright. We drove it to a local village, Saint-Marcel, to visit the resistance museum of Brittany.
The house is great. It’s 17th century, three storeys with a bathroom on each floor, rustic kitchen, virtually no straight lines on any of the floors or walls, wooden beamed ceilings, wireless high speed internet access. We are very pleased with it.
The village itself is something to see, most of the houses are 16th or 17th century with the bottom floor being built of stone and the remaining floors being half timbered with thick stone walls and plaster. The oldest house was built in 1538! There’s a lovely castle dating from the 11th century although rebuilt in the 15th century. There is also a canalised river running beside the castle that runs from Brest to Nantes – we rode bicycles along the tow path today and watched a boat going through a couple of locks.
All in all, we seem to have fallen on our feet! Here’s some photos:
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