• A landing stage has been built on the banks of the Vilaine to allow access to the bar of La Mie Mobile.

  • This pontoon hides a message.

    Users of the Vilaine would like more facilities to be able to disembark, especially in town. 

  • The practice of paddle, canoeing and kayaking is increasingly popular in the Breton capital. 

It is a simple pontoon, placed on the turquoise and translucent waters of the Vilaine.

A stone's throw from Boulevard Villebois-Mareuil, members of the Rennes kayak club have set up a small landing stage along the dike.

A strange location located several tens of meters from the “beaches” of the Baud-Chardonnet district and far from the nautical base.

The reason for the presence of this pied-à-terre takes on its full meaning around 5 p.m. when the La Mie Mobile bistro opens its terrace above.

You're not dreaming, Rennes now has a first bar accessible by water.

Last year, the MEM tavern had already tried it, but the operation has not yet been repeated.

When the water level allows it, the Bacchus terrace, at the end of the Mitterrand mall, also offers this possibility.

Alert the municipality of the necessary developments to be carried out on the Vilaine

This strange floating object of recuperation will allow people navigating on the Vilaine to treat themselves to a drink during the opening hours of La Mie Mobile and its neighbor La Garden Party, whose terraces overlook the stream.

But it is also a vindictive act aimed at alerting the municipality on the necessary developments to be carried out on the Vilaine.

“In recent years, we have been told that Rennes is reconnecting with its river.

But we who use the Vilaine the most, we can't see anything, ”regrets Gaël Bleunven, member of the Rennes kayak club.

Rennes: Will we one day be able to bathe in the Vilaine?

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The sixty or so members of his association would, however, like a few piers to be built on the watercourse in order to secure certain passages and in particular the locks.

“We have to land in the brambles to avoid them, it's not pleasant.

And it is not safe for novices.

We need more jetties, ”explains the kayaker, who recalls“ that no disembarkation is possible in the city center ”.

More and more practitioners

On the water, however, the number of boats has been steadily increasing in recent years.

By paddle, canoe or kayak, more and more practitioners are venturing out on the calm waters of the Vilaine.

They will now have a stopover accessible by boat.

Others will undoubtedly follow.

A choice of green mobility which it would be a shame to do without.

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