There are a number of well-marked walking/hiking trails starting from Carnac, ranging from 5 to 17 kilometers (this is the one we did the day before with a little shortcut making it ~16K). Today’s walk was an easy 10K by the coastline around the Saint-Colomban peninsula; it had one rocky […]
Carnac is known for its rows of menhirs (standing stones) and dolmens (portal tombs), but before we started our hike to them, we made short tour in the town. As said, Carnac is known for its sites of rows of standing stones (in some other parts of the world similar […]
Finally, starting from this day, our luck with the weather changed. It was sunnier and warmer, and the worst chilly wind had mostly died out. We stopped in Concarneau on our drive from Quimber to Carnac. First we visited the market hall and bought a loaf of rye bread. A […]
One of the reason we chose Quimper (Finistère) over Brest was that I had read somewhere that it is a colorful town. Maybe it was the weather, but we found it equally grey and dull as many other French towns. Most of the color was found in the flowers on […]
Then it was time to move on again. Our next destination was Quimper, which we chose for no particular reason other than it being smaller than the port town of Brest. On our way to Quimper we stopped by in the town of Huelgoat (Finistère) to hike in its mythical […]
Next our rental vehicle took us to the small town of Carhaix-Plouguer (Finistère), our home for the next three nights. We arrived early and had quite a long wait before we could check in at our Airbnb apartment. For some reason several hosts in this trip were quite inflexible with […]
This is short post about our first day in Rennes, the capital of Bretagne in Ille-et-Vilaine department, mostly from city center and Parc du Thabor. On the second day we visited Prairies Saint-Martin, a large nature park North of town. The pictures of this parkon both the town’s and tourism […]
We spent this year’s Fall vacation in Bretagne. During the two-week trip we only saw a fraction of the region, though, and mostly the central and Southern part of it. Nothing was planned ahead of time, but the theme of the vacation turned out to be various man-sculpted or man-erected […]
As much as I love the landscape of the Massif Central, I think the Matheysine Plateau in the French Prealps in Southern Isère is one of the most scenic areas I’ve visited in France, with the silhouette of the magestic Grande Tête de l’Obiou as a backprop. Soon after returning […]