Brest marina - recommendation please

[Muddy32]

And the supermarket is alongside at Chateaulin and has a "laundrette container" outside for laundry whilst you shop. No charge.

Also consider leaving the boat further up the river at Landeneau. Free alongside quay and the train stops there on the way to Paris/Brest.

 

[Lightwave395]

Marina du Chateau is quite nice, but it lacks even a basic chandlers if you think you may need such things.
Also, the most epic quantity of dog turd I've ever seen. It's "eyes down" on the way to the facs, hopefully with no bingos.

Hmmm, didn't see any of that last April, or walking to the station when I put my partner/crew on the train to St Malo... all seemed pretty clean to me.

 

[[163233]]

Hmmm, didn't see any of that last April, or walking to the station when I put my partner/crew on the train to St Malo... all seemed pretty clean to me.

Surely means you've hit it... Nose-blind?

It might depend on where they put you. If you're on the wall, then you walk down Rue Alderic Lecomte (According to google maps) and Alderic Lecomte most certainly deserves more respect. Although maybe that's how the french show respect, their ways are often mysterious...

The rade du brest is very pretty I would have liked to have pottered about there for a bit. Brest itself is a bit ho-hum, you're a long way from a supermarket as well at both marinas I think.

 

[Lightwave395]

Surely means you've hit it... Nose-blind?

It might depend on where they put you. If you're on the wall, then you walk down Rue Alderic Lecomte (According to google maps) and Alderic Lecomte most certainly deserves more respect. Although maybe that's how the french show respect, their ways are often mysterious...

The rade du brest is very pretty I would have liked to have pottered about there for a bit. Brest itself is a bit ho-hum, you're a long way from a supermarket as well at both marinas I think.

I was on the (newish looking) wide visitor pontoon in the centre, definitely a 20 minute walk to the nearest decent supermarket, up over Ave. Franklin Roosevelt. There was a Brittany folk music festival on in the Cours Dajot gardens one day (not a turd in site...!), loads of bands from all over Finistere, nice if you like that kind of thing which I do, some good seafood restaurants along the Quai de la Douane too.

 

[[163233]]

(not a turd in site...!)

It's a proper city, and has lots of proper city things, without being pretty, but if you didn't see the turd you weren't looking where you walked.

I can only think you have the luck of the gods if you neither saw nor trod upon it.

I know it's a french cliche, but when we were there it was epic, more so than elsewhere in France, it was like high-stakes hopscotch.

 

[Lightwave395]

It's a proper city, and has lots of proper city things, without being pretty, but if you didn't see the turd you weren't looking where you walked.

I can only think you have the luck of the gods if you neither saw nor trod upon it.

I know it's a french cliche, but when we were there it was epic, more so than elsewhere in France, it was like high-stakes hopscotch.

And I'd been to specsavers the week before I left the UK !!

 

[capnsensible]

Well I dropped a yacht off in Brest a couple of years ago and Im gonna go with the majority here and say all this stuff about dog logs everywhere seems quite an exaggeration. In fact, none.

However it may just have been an off day for one person.

Must say the train from Brest to Paris, whilst comfortable, is quite long.

 

[[163233]]

I clearly must have misidentifed ordinary mud, I offer my apologies to the city of Brest.

 

[Muddy32]

Mud is often composed of some excreted matter , even worm casts !!