Brittany, Part 4
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The map above shows that our last move was down to Rennes from Dinan and then out towards Lorient. We chose to camp at Hennebont because it is quite close to the main motorway and Lorient. It turns out to have a very good Municipal Camping on the bank of the Blavet, which we show above. Through our window, we have watched various wildlife, as well as sport on the river and horse-riding on the tow path on the far bank. Hennebont itself is quite small, but has an excellent supermarket with cheap petrol. It also has the remnants of a wall with towers and, before we leave, we hope to spend a little more time exploring.
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| 6th September, 1999 We set off north from Hennebont for a two-day tour of rest of Brittanyto the north and west of us. We made a brief stop at St. Caradec-Trégomel to look at a property. It turned out not to be of great interest, but the village was delightful and we would not have otherwise seen it. It also led us on to St. Tugdual where building plots were being advertised by the Mairie for 1FF per M˛! The plots were quite big but unfortunately the village looked a bit dead. We then journeyed on to Huelgoat, which is in the Parc Regional D'Armorique. We chose this diversion because the map shows a prehistoric monument but we first came across the Moulin de Chaos, above left, which stands at the edge of a lake that must have been formed by a glacier which dumped huge boulders downstream from it in what looks like chaos. The water from the lake first rushes over and around these boulders before diving underneath them. There is a grotto that the firm of foot can descend into and a path that meanders through and under the boulders, as can be seen above right. |
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| Just outside Huelgoat we found the prehistoric monument, which is shown above, and may have been a burial chamber or some other ritualistic structure. It is totally unprotected and you can walk in it and, while we were there, it was deserted - a far cry from some other stones we were to see later. | |
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| After visiting a couple of Church Closes - of which more later - we dashed to Roscoff on the northern coast for a quick look before going back south to Morlaix for the night. We stopped at the Hotel d'Europe recommended in our guide book, which has a quaint staircase. We decided to eat out and found an Italian restaurant two minutes away. In the morning, we had a quick look round Morlaix, which is best known for its railway viaduct, above left, which towers above its interesting church, which can be seen through one of the arches. Morlaix is a port, though somewhat inland and only used now by pleasure boats - and the occasional cormorants, who have a 'house' in the port. | |
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| We couldn't resist putting in these pictures of a Corsair that stands looking out to sea on the edge of the harbour. We have seen a few corsairs on our travels. They were licensed pirates who gave the British and other merchant ships a hard time. To be fair, we had a few of our own. This Corsair we noted sported a pony tail and we thought we might show it as some members of our family have also been known to, and may have thought it a bit modern. | |
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