Marseille, Montpellier, Paris, Strasbourg… There were distant horizons lined up on the notice boards at the train station. Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), Sunday January 3, 2021, in the afternoon. With a crossover between the returns and departures of travelers at the end of a truce for the confectioners and a year that was until the end very different from the previous ones. Celebrating Christmas and New Year’s Eve in Brittany, was it at least pleasant? Rather yes, according to most of the people we passed in the hall, a few minutes before their train arrived.
“We arrived from Strasbourg on December 27, we are leaving today after having joined the family in Belle-Ile-en-Mer”, testify Joachim and Miriam, every two years 30 years. He works in the waste recovery sector, she is a graphic designer. These regulars in Brittany were very happy not to have departed from the crossing of France from east to west, and to have embarked in Quiberon despite the storm Bella and its gusts !
A few meters from them, two sisters are waiting for their train to Paris. ? “The holidays went very well with the family in Dinan. In December, I had anticipated things by working a little more telework to protect myself and be able to come to Brittany ”, explains Adrianne, 27, a lawyer in Paris, specialist in personal data, who leaves with Youna, 26, a physics-chemistry teacher in a high school in Val-de-Marne. They had been able to come back to All Saints’ Day, now, Breton air, “It will be for February”.
The great breaths of invigorating air, Valérie, 51 years old, and Gilles, 57 years old, went to inspire them to the full in Finistère, ? “In the Crozon peninsula. We hadn’t really planned anything in advance, it was organized at the last minute, on December 25th. We arrived on the 31st! “, explain these Sarthois who took a train back to Le Mans on Sunday, at the beginning of the afternoon. Way to make up for a missed appointment this summer. ? “I had to run the trail at the end of the world (Plouzané, near Brest) at the beginning of July”, indicates Gilles.
The end of the world was also the destination of certain passengers at Rennes station. Heading west on Sunday for Guirec, 21, student in 3e year at the national engineering school of Brest (ENIB). His mother Gwenaelle, and his little sister Oregane, 16, a high school student in Rennes, accompanied him on the quay. ? “I came back from Finistère on the first Saturday of the holidays. Since All Saints’ Day, I have been working mainly in distance “, explains the young man.
So spending Christmas and New Year’s Day in Rennes was an opportunity to reunite with the family, and just social ties! “The school is in Plouzané, its student residence too, a little away from Brest, smiles his mom. We celebrated in small groups, with the grandparents, limiting the number of people to the maximum and planning two tables to respect the distances ”. And before they let their boy go, ? “We a little anticipated the galette de rois! “
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