Magoo's Travels: Brive - Day 3

Day 3

We had breakfast at the hotel in Le Mans this morning before getting ready to drive on to Brive. It was pretty basic stuff as far as breakfasts go but it filled a hole and set us up for the next leg.

The dining room at the hotel

This hotel, though pretty basic , had very friendly staff, parking below the hotel and was situated right in the centre of the city. Altogether a perfect place for a short stop off on our way through.

We then hit the road for our journey to Brive. A journey that was going to take us about 5 hours because we intended to stop en-route to fill the boot with wine because we would not have time on our way back to the port.

Some way along the journey we came across a very modern version of an old friend of ours and decided that this would be an ideal place to stop.

A new Leclerc hypermarche - perfect

After a while here choosing our wines we had a small drink in the bar before heading on to Brive

Thomas enjoying his drink while guarding his trolley

Then it was on to Brive and checking in to our Hotel, the Ibis Centre. We had a great room with a balcony overlooking the river.

Ibis Centre, Brive

Our room with its Balcony

After checking in we had a freshen up then went out into the town to see who we could meet up with. First of all we stopped for a drink at the Shamrock bar where a group of Dragons fans were gathered, so we joined them.

The Shamrock Bar

After this we went into a local Brasserie called L'Antre2 for a meal as we were both starving.

L'Antre2

A nice glass of local re,d while waiting for the meal

After eating, we heading for the Bar Basque where a crowd of supporters were going to make an evening of it.

Le Bar Basque

It was underway when we got there but we were soon wrapped up in it all. Not a bad crowd from Newport, we were the only ones in the bar, just us and the Basque ex rugby player who owned it. The following photographs are of the bunch of Dragons supporters we seem to see wherever we travel to watch the rugby