Bretagne, wildness and romance / France 7

Leaving Audierne we continued driving North, as our goal was to reach the “pink” coast near Perros-Guirec.
The best part of the day was in the morning, as we arrived quite early at Pointe du Raz, a promontory accessible only walking (we had to park our car and pay an entrance ticket) which is a gorgeous view on the Atlantic Ocean, with its crashing waves on the wild rocks, the Island of Sein, seagulls flying all around and beautiful heath flowers everywhere. It was rainy and windy when we arrived, then the sun shined and showed us this landscape in its magnificent colours. This was for us Brittany as we had always imagined!

To reach Perros-Guirec in the northern part of Brittany we made a long ride through beautiful landscapes and villages, actually almost every village would be worth a stop, especially because of their delightful and very mystical churches, the accurate gardens and colourful flowers, the nice houses. In the tiny village of Quemeneven we stopped to eat our delicious baguette with ham, bought in a boulangerie in the morning. Unfortunately the weather was quite cold and windy and also when we finally reached the northern coast with its magnificent beaches and the pink granite rocks, we were not able to fully enjoy it. We still needed to find a place to sleep, many hotels where full, there were so many people everywhere…
At the end we found a room at Château de Kermezen, an ancient castle of the 17th century, where the count and the countess themselves welcomed us. It was a typical situation of “past glory”… People that in the past centuries ad been served were now serving breakfast to strangers that rented a room in their house. This is very common in France and it’s a way to allow these people to remain in their family mansion, and for us to enjoy a night in a fabulous place! In fact this castle was full of charme, but the interior was quite decadent and the room was not really “noble” and had an incredibly small bed… But it was a unique experience anyway!

At night we had dinner in Paimpol, a nice village on the seaside, famous for the cultivation of oysters. In a small restaurant in front of the harbour we first had a fish soup to warm us up and then I ordered a dozen of oysters, while Manu preferred a grilled fish.

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