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 […]

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) […]

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 […]

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 Plage de Caméros (Caméros Beach) is just a short walk from our rental in Brittany. On the way we enjoy the flowers all around the home of our landlady’s parents, and wonder what they are going to do with all those apples and pears – at the moment they’re just dropping to the ground. […]

We enjoyed our first hike to Pointe de Pen Hir on a gray and drizzly day (see our earlier post). We returned to Pen Hir this week on a brilliantly sunny day; the views were upgraded to spectacular. The water color really is extraordinary in the sun. First, however, we fortified ourselves with galettes (savory […]

While entering a church in Umbria (Italy), we heard a tourist coming out say, “What can you say? Another beautiful church…” Here in Brittany, what can you say – another beautiful hike! The weather was particularly fine, not a cloud in the sky and about 20C (68F). In tribute to the weather gods, J changed […]

Mornings near Crozon are almost uniformly gray. The sun doesn’t rise until around 8 AM, so there’s half the morning gone already. If people in Brittany tell you they get up with the sun (like us), it definitely doesn’t mean they are early risers! Around lunch time, however, the skies lighten, the clouds break up, […]