Saint-Méloir-des-Ondes Home

The first part of our time with Didier and Jocelyne was in their primary home in Plougavalin, on France's Atlantic coast near Brest. The remainder of our stay is at his childhood home in Saint-Meloir-des-Odnes, near Saint-Malo and Cancale.

CJ once followed Didier to the bare attic floor beams of this place. After serious renovation designed by Didier and much of the work done by him, he turned it into a magnificent second home of 'old stones'.

We stay in the room with the door at the top of the external stairs. It makes getting our two big suitcases easy to get to the room given inside there is the narrow spiral staircase.

When last we were here, the house on the right was not and the lot it sits on was a part of this property. Didier sold the lot to help finance the new home in Plougovelin. The house on the property to the right of that was also part of the original property. Didier's father built that house.

This ancient well, still working, and the apple tree across the street are also part of the property. 

The staircase was not built for the size of people today.

Since they are not going to return to the house for a month, the apples must be picked. Didier will use a ladder to drop them, and the ground crew will box them.