Hiking Crozon: Clouds

Some days the scenery is more in the heavens than down on the ground… Although looking down can also be rewarding… how did we not notice these interesting rocks before?

Brest

A trip to Brest provided a rather startling contrast to our quiet country life in Lézargol. Just looking back at the pictures makes me tense up a little! On the plus side, there were lots of dining options and M got the burger he’d been craving. An American-style burger, no less, from a restaurant called […]

Hiking Crozon: Lézargol to Elléouët

Rain, rain, go away… and amazingly, it did! At 1100. it rained. By 1130, the sky was blue. Quick! Let’s hike! In order to not waste any of that precious blue, we hiked from Lézargol instead of driving somewhere. Fortunately, the coast is plenty scenic right here. We headed west toward Pointe du Bellec along […]

Pointe des Espagnols

I’m afraid we’re fair-weather hikers, so we’ve only had some short walks close to home over the last few days. It looks like we’ll far exceed the average of sixteen rainy days here in October; today is October fifteenth, we’ve only had one totally dry day so far this month, and the forecast is rain […]

Hiking Crozon: A Walk in the Bois du Loc’h

Two roads diverged in a wood and we – we took the one less traveled by… we ventured off the GR 34 on to a much less manicured trail yesterday. This hike featured forest greens and browns rather than the blues of sky and water as we walked in the Loc’h Wood (Bois du Loc’h) […]

Hiking Crozon: Ménez Hom

We’d been waiting for a sunny day to hike the tallest nearby hill, Ménez Hom. Today fit the bill perfectly. In preparation we fortified ourselves with Sunday Lamb, a meal that was almost entirely sourced from the Crozon open-air market – delicious! Ménez Hom is 330 m (1083 ft) tall. The jury appears to be […]

Seen Around Town

At the market in Crozon this morning were the biggest radishes we’ve ever seen – by far! The fall vegetables are super photogenic, so M couldn’t resist a few quick pics. The fish monger came back from vacation last week, so there’s now quite a good selection of seafood. Everyone else is, however, apparently going […]

Hiking Crozon: Kergavan

We ventured off the Crozon peninsula for a hike near the town of Douarnenez. (So technically we weren’t really hiking Crozon, but that is the peninsula on the other side of the water in the pictures…) We started in the tiny hamlet of Kergavan, just west of Douarnenez. After parking in the small area provided […]

Le Pont de Térénez

What happens when two retired engineers go to visit a really cool bridge? Lots and lots of pictures! We had driven over this bridge a couple of weeks ago and made a mental note to come back. When fair skies beckoned today, we headed over to take a closer look. The bridge takes the D791 […]

Deutsch or Français, Anyone?

If you happened to check out the blog on 1 October, you probably saw posts in German and French. J is working her language muscles by translating the blog into both those languages. Things are more organized now, and the other languages have their own spaces. If you’d like to read the blog in the […]