We first spent the weekend in the countryside near Paris with some of Yves' friends. After that, we caught a train from the outskirts of Paris through Nantes on our way to Pornic. We had dinner outside at a tavern, in the late afternoon Nantes sunshine. Then we caught the connecting train to Pornic and arrived at about 11pm to look for accomodation.

Pornic is a port on Brittany's beautiful Jade Coast. It's a very popular place, and when we arrived, there was accomodation to be found. We decided to stop in at a bar for a coffee and work out what to do. The bar overlooked the port (most of the shops and attractions in Pornic revolve around the port) and across the road there was a merry-go-round attracting lots of children around it.

An hour later we left the bar and hiked up the hill in the moonlight with our backpacks and a tent we had borrowed from Yves' friend in Paris. We found a nice little cat on the way, who decided to follow us all night, and settled down with us when we found the perfect place to camp.

The next morning we had breakfast outside a little bakery and pondered over where to look for accomodation. We ended up getting a room overlooking the port, at The Beau Soleil. While we waited for our room to be prepared, we left our bags at reception and took a stroll down to one of the beaches for a look.

Well, we should have known, but the soft sand and the warm sun were a cocktail for a sunburn, especially for two tired people who hadn't slept so well in a tent the night before. We woke up an hour later, looking a little too much like lobsters. Ooops!

We spent most of our week eating seafood (Brittany is famous for it's mussells and fries, just like Belgium) and exploring the beaches. We went sailing on a 2 man catamaran, took a tourist train around the centre of Pornic and browsed the markets and shops.