When having chemotherapy your immune system becomes less effective, for this reason the doctors suggest that getting in an aeroplane and breathing stale air for a few hours is not a great idea.  The result is that, apart from Gills adventure to the USA, we have not had a foreign holiday for over a year.

We can get to Brittany on a ferry so we are booked on an overnight ferry to St Malo where we are spending five nights in an apartment right in the centre of the old city from where we will venture further afield.

For some reason it is almost the same price for a car and two passengers or just two foot passengers on the cross channel ferry.  This seemed crazy to me so I queried it with Brittany Ferries.  "If you take a car then two passengers go for free" was the reply.