Brittany: Saint Michel Chef-Chef

Ready to head to Brittany?

On y va!

If you've been reading this blog for a little while,

you may remember when I went into a photo-taking frenzy chez nous

because we had signed up to a home exchange site, Trocmaison.

Well, shortly after creating our profile, we lucked out 

& quickly agreed to exchange our apartment in Annecy

for the beach house belonging to a couple of teachers

on France's Atlantic coast.

I'll be honest: at first, I figured that the best part of the exchange

would surely be the incredibly catchy name 

of the seaside village we'd be in:

Saint Michel Chef-Chef.

C'est impossible to tire of saying that name.  

Just try!

Keep saying it!

Another dozen times!

See?

welcome to town

But once we arrived, 

I saw that our little beach-side abode was small, comfy & charming.

home sweet home exchange

living room/dining room/kitchen all in one!

But the best part? 

In less than five minutes, we could walk to this:

And see this:

And beach-comb to our hearts' delight like this:

And gaze upon this:

As you can tell from the photos, it wasn't always sunny & warm.

In fact, most days we wore our windbreakers & hiking boots

& we got rained on quite often.

But you know what?

That's Brittany & I'm a West Coast girl.

It was just so wonderful to be so close to the ocean again.

No reason to be crabby about the weather!