Getting on the road to Rennes !!!

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I come to my nice Rennes. This time one of the nicest monument , and of course the City is in Îlle et Vilaine dept 35,of my lovely Bretagne, I have come back to this beautiful City after a long hiatus and it was wonderful, Bear with me as the next posts will be on this beautiful City, Let me tell you about getting on the road to Rennes !!! Hope you enjoy it as I.

I have written a post on getting around Rennes in all modes, but really I come here by car and on business trips passed by the train station sometimes for connections, However, car is king and I like to tell you my latest road warrior adventures, The city of Rennes covers 50 km2, including more than 8 km of green spaces and public gardens. To give further idea of its location , Rennes is about 308 km from Paris , 128 km from Angers, 210 of Brest, 154 km of Caen, 180 km of Quimper, and Le Havre is at 204 km, La Rochelle 220 km, Nantes 120 km, Saint Malo 63 km, Vitré 35 km, Redon 58k, Paimpont 37 km and from me it is at 129 km on the N24 !

The city is very easily accessible as it is located at the crossroads of a star network of expressways such as the N157 to the east to Vitré, Laval, le Mans and Paris. The N 137 to the south towards Nantes, La Rochelle and Bordeaux.  The N 24 to the west towards Vannes, Lorient, Quimper and me. The N 12 to the north-west towards Saint-Brieuc and Brest.  The D 137 to the north towards Dinan, Dinard and Saint-Malo.  The A84 to the north is towards Fougères, Caen, Rouen and Lille, and further Paris on the A13, The RD 175 north towards Saint-Aubin-d’Aubigné and Le Mont-Saint-Michel All these roads connect to the Rennes Rocade or ring road which provides a complete motorway bypass of 31 km around the city.

Many times find parking on street but sometimes for quicker moves get into underground parking garages, My favorites are Hoche,entrance by Place Hoche. Kennedy-Villejean entrance by Rue du Bourbonnais.  Kléber,entrance by Rue Kléber. Les Lices (market) entrance by Place des Lices , as in this trip, and Vilaine entrance by Quai Duguay Trouin and Quai Lamennais.

Rennes parking des lices entr oct24

As an anecdote, passed by the Sainte Anne metro station so here is my bit on it, Rennes has 15 stations, and about 4 stations are in the immediate vicinity of Parcs Relais parkings

Rennes metro Sainte Anne oct24

The official C-Parks on place des Lices parking : https://www.c-park.fr/parking/parking-les-lices/

The STAR Rennes transports see metro lines A or B : https://www.star.fr/

The city of Rennes on parkings roads transports etc, :https://metropole.rennes.fr/thematique/transports-circulation

There you go folks ,another jewel in my wonderful capital city of Rennes. The walks are worth it with plenty of lovely areas, Again, hope you enjoy the post on getting on the road to Rennes !!! as I.

And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!

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Published by pedmar10

I am a lover of travels to Europe , Americas , Africa and Asia as well ,who like to share my experiences of the last 53 years with the world, visiting so far 81 countries; living in 6, working in 5, and Citizen of 4, speaking fluently 4 languages. I can deal with sports especially football/soccer and love music, arts, wine collector/drinker, and go out to restaurants, and just visit the world. My background comes all the way from Candelaria and Pajara in Tenerife, Spain where my grandparents came from ;not knowing each other then, to Punta Brava, west of Havana, Cuba. There , my parents born in Cuba met and later on I was born there too. 100% guanche (annexed Tenerife to Spain on April 10 ,1496). I left Cuba as many have to Madrid, Spain where I lived for 4 years. Then, move to Perth Amboy ,New Jersey USA (living there 13 yrs) ; where I completed high school, became a US Citizen, learned to drive a car, and learned English. Afterward, went to the university in Florida, ERAU, and upon graduation decided to moved there to Ormond by the Sea, near Daytona Beach, finally moving North Miami, then Hialeah, then another moved to Silver Lakes division in Miramar, Broward county, Florida; in Florida I lived a total of 18 years. Finally , moved to France in 2003 ,Versailles call me for its royalty, and working in Paris was great. It was time to seek frontiers again and moved to Brech near Auray, Morbihan in Brittany , and later move to not too far Pluvigner. Total so far in France has been 20 years, and counting. Moving average a home every 5.5 years hopefully this will be my last. Cheers All rights reserved. No part of this blog may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the written permission of the copyright holder, me. No part of this work may be modified, without the written permission of the holder, me.No part of this work may be exposed to public view in any form or by any means, without identifying the holder as the author, and with the before mentioned permission.

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