I've made it home. Essentially. Lunch This past Tuesday morning, I hiked to the Le Bono, just next door to my Brittany home base of Baden. Pointe de Trévignon I had originally planned to finish this leg of the coast of Brittany on Sunday, August 13th in Lorient, and...
These last nearly two weeks, I've been working on my goal of hiking the entire coast of Brittany. This time, I'm making my way from Crozon to Lorient, finishing up the Finistère section of the GR34. I should arrive in Lorient this Sunday evening. That will leave just...
Thanks to Complete France for this list of 16 Traditional Villages in Brittany You Have to Visit. Île-de-Batz I still haven't seen all of them. I'm missing four: Bécherel (Ille-et-Vilaine), Pontrieux (Côtes d’Armor), La Roche-Derrien (Côtes d’Armor) and Pont-Croix...
In late May, I went on an excursion I'd be wanting to do for a long time, since the Ria d'Etel and the picturesque island village of Saint-Cado first won me over in May 2012. I took the 1 1/2 hour boat excursion from the town of Etel into the estuary. The tour starts...
La Semaine du Golfe (Gulf Week) is a festival held every two years in the Gulf of Morbihan, in southern Brittany. This festival celebrates the seafaring history and culture of the region. Numerous towns and ports encompassing the Gulf participate, which makes for a...
I finished another 11-day leg of the Brittany coastal trail, the GR34, last month. I estimate that I'm now about 3/5 done with the 1,200-or-so mile-long GR34. You can see my photos of the coast from Vitré through Landévennec here. In this stage, I hiked from Morlaix...
This October, I made a little visit up to Le Roc-Saint-André in the northern part of the Morbihan department of Brittany to finally check out one of my favorite Breton breweries, Brasserie Lancelot. If you've spent time in Brittany, you may recognize some of their...
I am still looking for housemates in Brittany--please help me spread the word! My 4-bedroom house is in the very center of Baden (56870). We're just a mile or so from the water, on the Gulf of Morbihan. The 5-minute ferry to the famous Île-aux-Moines is a short drive...
You may remember that one of my current "projects" is to hike the whole coast of Brittany. I'm guessing it's almost 2,000 kilometers (1,200+ miles) in total. But I'm not in any rush! I did seven more days in mid-August and although I'm probably only 1/3 of the way...
I generally don't like cocktail bars in Paris. They tend to be pretentious and overpriced. In fact, I can't think of any cocktails bars here I actually do like... that is, until now. On Saturday, as I was already in the neighborhood, I stopped by CopperBay in the...
