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The weather finally calms down After five days on Belle-Île the storm conditions had abated and our much-anticipated appointment with Alubat, for a factory tour of Yuma’s birthplace at Les [...]

Off to a new island After a bouncy night in our now unpleasantly exposed bay we headed across to Belle-Île-en-Mer, a couple of hours upwind and to the south [...]

Another tidal stream We left Vannes on a sunny morning and motored down the river to the Golfe du Morbihan. Out there, on the slightly more open water, the [...]

Motoring into Vannes A couple of hours further east of our anchorage off Gavrinis lies Vannes with its fantastically preserved and impressive walled old town. [...]

Into the Golfe du Morbihan A short and unremarkable sail took us from La Trinité-sur-Mer around the Locmariaquer peninsula and into the Golfe du Morbihan, a shallow maze of [...]

Menhirs, dolmens and tumuli La Trinité-sur-Mer was another of our Neolithic stops. Indeed, for us it more or less functioned as the epicentre of Neolithic stuff in Brittany. In [...]

Off to La Trinité-sur-Mer We departed Concarneau at about 0800, the first of a swarm of boats making space for the big regatta that was to start the next [...]

Lesconil turned out to be a (probably) dull but slightly charming little place. All very pretty and all very quaint. We had a short wander around in search of [...]