This is part of my series on ideas for day hikes in Brittany's southern department of the Morbihan. Please also see my earlier posts on Île-aux-Moines, Île d'Arz, Île de Houat and Île d'Hoëdic, Quiberon's Côte Sauvage and Port-Navalo and Locmariaquer. Loop 1, Le Bono...
Presqu'île de Rhuys This is part of my series on ideas for day hikes in Brittany's southern department of the Morbihan. Please also see my earlier posts on Île-aux-Moines, Île d'Arz, Île de Houat and Île d'Hoëdic and Quiberon's Côte Sauvage. Presqu'île de Rhuys Two...
This is part of my series on ideas for day hikes in Brittany's southern department of the Morbihan. Please also see my earlier posts on Île-aux-Moines, Île d'Arz and Île de Houat and Île d'Hoëdic. Just west of the Gulf of Morbihan, the presqu'île (peninsula) of...
Île de Houat This is part of my series on ideas for day hikes in Brittany's southern department of the Morbihan. Please also see my earlier posts on Île-aux-Moines and Île d'Arz. Île de Houat Île de Houat and Île d'Hoëdic lie outside the Gulf of Morbihan, in the Bay...
As promised, over the next two months I will post a series of ideas for day hikes in Brittany's southern department, the Morbihan. The hike on Île d'Arz, described below, is the perfect complement to the hike I described in my post of late July on Île-aux-Moines. Île...
Later this month, I will post a series of Brittany hiking itineraries, to add to those already on the Paris Weekender site, such as hiking on L'Île-aux-Moines. So I thought it would be useful to first share my tips for planning the perfect Brittany hiking weekend....
L'Île-aux-Moines It’s official! I now have a “second home” in Brittany. I use the quotes around “second home” because (as you know if you have been following my series on Buying Property in Paris) I don’t exactly have a primary residence at the moment! But details,...
The Marais Poitevin, aptly nicknamed la Venise Verte or Green Venice, is a magical place, a large network of intertwining canals. Marais, like the neighborhood in Paris, actually means "swamp" and the Marais Poitevin is indeed a swamp. Yet miraculously, there are no...
Over the Ascension weekend, I was once again drawn back to Brittany, to the southern coast, in the Morbihan. You can find five Brittany itineraries under Weekend Itineraries, including four that focus on various parts of the Morbihan. You can refer to those...
About 32 kilometers northwest of Paris, along the Oise River, lies the small town of L'Isle Adam, an idyllic spot to spend a Sunday afternoon. View from the river path just northwest of L'Isle Adam L'Isle Adam has a little bit for everyone: the river and trails...
