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 […]

Some Things Are Different in France: Groceries

One of the greatest pleasures of shopping in France is going to an open-air market and having the vendor ask, “Will you be eating this today or tomorrow?” Whatever your answer, you receive the melon, tomato, or peach with the perfect ripeness. And if your answer is today, they may throw in a free tomato […]

Hiking Crozon: Pointe du Guern

Wind and clouds greeted the start of our hike from the big beach at Telgruc-sur-Mer, the Plage de Trez-Bellec. Telgruc is the next town down the Crozon peninsula from us; this beach is presumably the source of its name – -sur-Mer means “on the sea.” We both agreed that this was our nicest hike so […]

The First Haircuts

Maybe it wasn’t the best idea to choose a hair salon at random, but there were only three in town and they all had similar ratings online. We came prepared, with photos of our freshly-cut looks at home. J was a little nervous, as her stylist had said, “I don’t know what I’d tell them […]

Hiking Crozon: La Plage de Pentrez

The weather forecast said a few scattered showers. As we headed out on a hike, the sun quickly disappeared and soon a shower was scattering right on us. Fortunately we decided to persevere. It didn’t last long and we visited the huge, beautiful beach south of “our” beach: la plage de Pentrez (Pentrez Beach). At […]