Still in Brittany; it's still beautiful!

On Wednesday, after handing Francie her phone back (we charged it for her as she doesn’t have the luxury of a leisure battery), we swapped numbers and bid farewell.  As we’ve already seen her twice, we imagine we’ll probably cross paths again before our paths diverge at the Spanish border.

Our stopover was in Pleubian, (which I keep wanting to call plebeian!) this time on the Geological coast (I imagine so named because it’s rocky as anything!).

We parked up with another sea view, next to 2 French motorhomers; there were only 4 spaces in total so it was a quiet night, with only the sound of the waves at high tide breaking the silence.

I have to admit, it was an utterly lazy day for us, it could almost have been Sunday.  I managed to finish a whole book and not a lot else!  Ah, happy days!!

Today, feeling thoroughly refreshed after our chillout day yesterday, we headed to our planned stopover at Carantec. On arrival, although the view was lovely, we weren’t so sure whether it was actually meant for motorhomes at all, so we stopped for lunch to take in the view, then carried on up to Roscoff.  On arrival at Roscoff, as neither of us much liked the look of the aire, we carried on driving and ended up in Camaret sur Mer; one of the beauties of having a motorhome is being able to move on until you find something you like the look of!  To be fair, we’re not normally so fussy, but today was just one of those days!  It’s also added some much needed mileage.  We’d intended to do around 50 miles a day but we’ve found that we’re actually doing much less than that.  As we ended up doing more than 100 miles today, we’ve increased the average mileage...marginally.  It also marks our first night on the Atlantic coast!

The aire here cost us €6 but as we haven’t paid for one this week yet, we thought we’d splash out.  We’re glad we did though; we took Powell for a wander after being cooped up in Dora for longer than normal today and discovered that the views around the corner are just amazing.  As the weather has been glorious again today (20 degrees at the end of October!!), we made the most of it and ended up taking him on a circular walk along the coastal footpath, which took us approximately 2 hours.  We saw a few more of the remnants of the Atlantic Wall defences on our way round.  We took far too many photos to put on here, but when we finally get a connection that’s fast enough (which it isn’t today), I’ll upload some.  So I managed to upload a couple; they don't really do it justice to be honest.

We ended the walk by watching the sun set over the beach; the best sunset we've seen yet, but obviously by no means the last one we'll see on the west coast.

Brittany so far kind of reminds us of Cornwall; some of the roads are certainly as narrow!  Pete actually said today that he often feels like he wants to drive on the left because some of it reminds of the British countryside.  In this particular region of Brittany, the signs are in French and in Breton, a form of Celtic language that actually originated from Britain and is apparently closely related to Welsh and Cornish, well that's what the internet tells me anyway.

Tomorrow we’re heading inland to the Arree Mountains for a couple of days to explore and to hopefully escape the chance of any trick or treaters knocking on Dora.  We had hoped that the French might have boycotted the Americanism that is Halloween, but it would appear that they’ve jumped on board and their shops are full of cobwebs and ‘scary’ stuff too, although admittedly, they haven’t gone quite so all out crazy about it like they do in the UK.