We are a family with 3 children (2 boys, 13 and 11 years old and a little girl who is 6 years old). We live in a bright modern house (built in 2010) in Chateaugiron, medieval castle and typical village. 14 Km from Brittany’s capital Rennes (pop. 200 000). We are both civil engineers. We have a very kind mostly outdoor cat.
Our house is comfortable. It is 146 m² and has 4 bedrooms (1 double, 2 single and one with bunk bed). There are a bathroom and a shower room. There is all you need for a baby and bicycles for the whole family. The living room opens on a nice garden with a terrace and kid games. We have plenty of toys for all ages. Wifi, TV with many foreign channels. We live in a quiet residential suburb with friendly neighbourhood.
Playground, new public swimming pool (http://www.piscine-inoxia.com/) and outdoor sports ground (football, basketball and Skate Park) are less than 5 minutes walk.
Within 10 minutes walking on a pedestrian path, you will be at the village centre, its castle and medieval street where you will find very good bakers, butchers, restaurants... There is also a supermarket in the village.
Our house is an interesting central place to discover Brittany.
The big city Rennes is located less than a 20 minutes drive. There you will appreciate to visit the large medieval area and enjoy a wonderfull market on saturday. It is also a modern city with lots of shops and restaurants. http://www.tourisme-rennes.com/
Places to visit within a one hour drive include: Brittany’s lovely beaches, old cities Saint Malo and Dinan, Dinard, legendary forest of Broceliande (King Arthur), the big Aquarium of Saint Malo, the Zoo de la Bourbansais, Cobac Park (amusement park)…
About 1H15 drive: you will visit the Mont Saint Michel or Nantes. Paris by very fast train is 1H30 from Rennes

After 6 wonderfull intervac experiences (Goteborg Sueden, Tavistock (UK), Skerries near Dublin, Amsterdam, Salt Lake City and Toronto) we are looking for other exchanges. We dream to go to Norway and Scotland but are open to any destination.
Suprise us!

For summer we are mostly interested on a house with a garden not too far from a big city. Flat is ok for other holidays. We can exchange car also (we have a Toyota Verso 7 pl).

We have been host family for a Young irish girl in the past and are interrested in beeing host family again.
We are also interested in "exchanging" our oldest son who learns English and spanish.