The Bretagne is the place in France to go sailing and according to the national navy museum in Brest all the best sailors used to come from the Bretagne. We saw beautiful sailing boats everywhere, but we were especially impressed in Trinité sur Mer. This is also the marina of some very famous racing sailing boats,... Continue Reading →
The Bretons are as much celtic people as are the Irish, Welsh, Cornish, Manish, Scottish, and Britains (They just never made it over the channel :-o). Hence you find lots of celtic references and the Breton is still a celtic language some Bretons speak. It sounds quite hard with lots of Rs and Ks. When... Continue Reading →
The ocean dictates life here in the Bretagne. It makes the weather, lets you access otherwise unreachable places and allows the boats to leave and enter the harbor only at certain times of the day. This is the harbor in Barfleur (Normandie) during low tide. I mean you need to look at it from the... Continue Reading →
Lighthouses can be found all over this beautiful country. This is the first we saw on our trip. It is the second highest in France – Le Phare de Gatteville is over 70 metres tall and you can see its light nearly in England! We loved it. Afterwards we also found a second one that... Continue Reading →
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