This is the small gîte that I stayed in during my French immersion class, near the tiny village of Thourie (about 30 minutes south of Rennes). The accommodations were comfortable but, as you can see, pretty basic. I came to the conclusion that gîte'' is the French word for 'this place is pretty old, and none of the appliances were purchased after 1955.' Still, the experience was novel.
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My goodness that is a pretty depressing place. Did it have any garden or landscaping? Was it within walking distance of some fun stuff?
You put your finger on it. Without a car, I could go NOWHERE. The garden out back was actually quite pretty (mostly meadow, but still...) but I was in that building, in that ROOM, for about eight hours a day.
When I was first there, it wasn't bad. But it was the lack of ability to get away that was a killer. Thourie is a VERY small village -- I think the only stores were a tabac and La Poste -- and Rennes, which is quite nice and a small city, was about half an hour away. One thing that fascinated me -- though I did not mention it, because I was getting grumpy most of the time -- was that on the road, EVERY kilometer, they had a Dalek-shaped monument, about five feet high, to the American troops who had come that was after the Normandy landings. It was actually quite touching.
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