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Where to next? This short passage turned into something of an interesting stuff up and certainly one for the books. We’d been watching the [...]

With strong winds blowing in from the west we ended up staying in Camaret-sur-Mer for five days. Great walking along ridgelines. Though the [...]

Early morning departure Our departure from L’Aber Wrac’h came just as it got light enough to see the crab pots and nets that were peppered [...]

Station Biologique de Roscoff It was market day in Roscoff so our first task was to resupply (banana supplies had gotten critically low) at [...]

More tidal streams Our departure from Lézardrieux was an early-ish one with lines dropped at 0600 to ensure that we caught the best of [...]

Hiding in Lézardrieux Our next stop was Lézardrieux, a scant 5 nm to the south east from île-de-Bréhat. Here we planned to stop for [...]

From Granville we headed west again, hopping along the Breton coast. A brief stop in the small harbour town of St-Cast was sufficient for [...]

Back to Îles Chausey After our slightly traumatic but impressive visit to Mont Saint-Michel, our next stop was an overnighter back out at the [...]

The most visited site outside of Paris Just a short bus ride away from Saint-Malo is Mont Saint-Michel, a place that ranks highly amongst [...]

A bit of history The fantastically fortified port city of Saint-Malo lies some 20 nm south-west of Iles de Chausey. While it has no [...]