One of the reason we chose Quimper (Finistère) over Brest was that I had read somewhere that it is a colorful town. Maybe it was the weather, but we found it equally grey and dull as many other French towns. Most of the color was found in the flowers on […]
Then it was time to move on again. Our next destination was Quimper, which we chose for no particular reason other than it being smaller than the port town of Brest. On our way to Quimper we stopped by in the town of Huelgoat (Finistère) to hike in its mythical […]
Next our rental vehicle took us to the small town of Carhaix-Plouguer (Finistère), our home for the next three nights. We arrived early and had quite a long wait before we could check in at our Airbnb apartment. For some reason several hosts in this trip were quite inflexible with […]
This is short post about our first day in Rennes, the capital of Bretagne in Ille-et-Vilaine department, mostly from city center and Parc du Thabor. On the second day we visited Prairies Saint-Martin, a large nature park North of town. The pictures of this parkon both the town’s and tourism […]
We spent this year’s Fall vacation in Bretagne. During the two-week trip we only saw a fraction of the region, though, and mostly the central and Southern part of it. Nothing was planned ahead of time, but the theme of the vacation turned out to be various man-sculpted or man-erected […]
As much as I love the landscape of the Massif Central, I think the Matheysine Plateau in the French Prealps in Southern Isère is one of the most scenic areas I’ve visited in France, with the silhouette of the magestic Grande Tête de l’Obiou as a backprop. Soon after returning […]
We didn’t have any exceptional culinary adventures on this vacation. As planned, we ate a lot of fresh and hot smoked fish, with potatoes or in salads. We cooked a lot, but also bought microwave meals for lunches, such as the beef soup below: We also ate a couple of […]
Usually in Helsinki we stay in quiet, old neighborhoods as close to the city center as possible. That’s what we did this time for our first stay, but for the final stay we booked an Airbnb apartment in Vuosaari, the Eastern terminus of the metro line. Early in our vacation […]
We only spent one night at Tomi’s family’s summer house. In hindsight, after learning that the internet worked there just fine, we should have spent more time there. On the other hand, spending all those rainy and thundestormy days on the small island would have been a lousy idea, since […]