Home to Brittany!

Drizzle this morning so quick pack up and head for Brittany!!!  So excited to be back there again!!  Next island to stay on this time was Quiberon, a beautiful (now peninsular) island with sandy beaches on the calm eastern side and dramatic rocky crags on the western Atlantic side.  The aire is a large out of town space about 1 mile from the most southerly tip.  We chose a spot that meant the kids had plenty of space to play safely at the end of one of the parking bays.  The barrier wasn’t working and so the stay was free – fantastic!!  1 minute walk to the coast where a stony bay with huge rocks was being battered by the incoming tide. This coast is called Le Cote Sauvage, it really is wild and beautiful too. There was a beautiful old fashioned tall ship on the horizon.

We then walked along the coast path about a mile to the end where there was a café and ice cream stall – the kids enjoyed an ice lolly which melted far too quickly!!  Walked back feeling wind-swept and the hungry!  Casoulet and dauphinoise again, kids aren’t bored of it yet!!  Showered behind tarpaulin again, some nosey neighbour stared the whole time!!

Interesting how the villages have changed style again.  The whitewash of the Vendee and Atlantique (as well as Dordogne) has been replaced with slate roofs and grey stone coloured bricks made of the local granite of the coast and dark coloured slate roofs.  All the signs have become bilingual with the Breton and French and we have both commented that we fee ‘at home’ even though we’ve not been to this actual part of Brittany before!!

Spent last part of evening in Flo  - definite change in climate here on coast compared to Dordogne; the sun goes in and it feels cold whereas as we were boiling all night before!  The sky was completely clear here and we went out to gaze at the stars for a while before bed.  I saw my first shooting star, super impressed!