Sunday 22 May 2011

AMAZING WEEKEND IN MANOIR DE BAS PLESSIS-BAZOUGE DE DESERT-BRETAGNE

Spent the most lovely weekend with my friends Jean, Jonna and David, in Jean's wonderful manoir in Bretagne. The huge Manoir is from the 1400, completely renovated so it looks more like a top modern loft in New York  specially designed by skilled architects.  An enormous garden with trees cut like champagne corks and amazing flowers everywhere. It was beautiful. We drove there in the newest Renault car David had borrowed from his work for the weekend. After a couple of hours in the car driving north, we drove right into the woods. It was very quiet and very dark and desolate, as it tends to be in the middle of the countryside. I must admit I was a bit afraid of ghosts...When we were almost there we drove on a small road where beautiful rhododendron and rose trees of different kinds lined the cosy alley that led up to the house and the garden that had trees trimmed as champagne corks. It smelled lovely and me Jonna and David checked in to three of the nine bedrooms of the manoir and unpacked our bags. My ghostfear dissapeared immediately when we entered though-what an amazing place... Artwork by Nan Goldin and Richard Prince were hanging on the walls in the spacy white painted huge room we entered in with the biggest fireplace I've seen in my life in the middle.You instantly felt secure in this place.
The next morning after a lovely breakfast on the terasse, we took off to Mont St Michel, one of the most famous places in France. It is often calld one of France's most captivating sights. This monastery is situated high on a mountain on the island Mont Tombe in the middle of the Atlantic water.  After lunch (oysters and champagne) and a complete tour of the monastery we took off to St Malo. And god what a beautiful place. We had a champagne apéro on the beach followed by a very nice dinner at the Chateaubriand where I had a chance to eat even more Breton oysters(crazy about that shit.) We drove home to the manoir late in the dark starry night and I was very happy to be breathing fresh air....
To be continued....
Ps) Gonna upload more pic's soon....

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