Driving West into Brittany

 

Wednesday 18th June 2025

Not too much interesting happened today, we left Dinan and drove west further into the Brittany peninsula to a sleepy little village on the Jaudy river estuary called Tréguier.

The roads here are nearly all super smooth and totally devoid of ruts, potholes ridges, there a pleasure to drive on in comparison to UK roads which are a disgrace. 

Heaven knows what foreign visitors to the UK think when they lose their fillings driving on our bumpy roads.

We had a wander around Tréguier village after lunch, the market was just wrapping up, so we admired the views and moved on.

Tréguier dashboard view

Tréguier village - Damn the van, Grrr.
The nicest view of the historic buildings in the village spoilt by white van man !
This was parked up here not passing through

Our destination for the night is a CCP motorhome Aire aa few miles around the coast in Trestel on the Côtes-d'Armor coastal department of Brittany.

I'd thought about spending a few days here relaxing, but to be honest the Aire, whilst it's very popular, is a bit disappointing to me.

We're a bit crammed in with no views.

Also, the beach and whilst it's a very  beautiful cove with white soft sand the Caribbean would be proud of, no dogs are allowed between April and September.

There's not a lot else here either except the beach, so I think we'll move on tomorrow.

My cameras playing up ! It's over exposing all the shots on the setting I normally use
Anyway this is the beautiful bay at Trestel, the sand is white, but not this white, lol.

When we arrived we noticed a dark shadow on the horizon out at sea, you can see it in this photo. I think it's a sea mist, it never made landfall and had gone by this evening

I'll get a better photo of the bay tomorrow with the manual
setting I'm having to get used to

The weather has been fantastic, sunny and a comfortable 22-23c and a cooling breeze off the sea. 

This coast is called the Pink Granite Coast due to, not surprisingly the pink granite that was quarried in the region.

It makes quite a dramatic coastline which I'm looking forward to exploring.

At some point along the way here, we noticed the roadsigns went bilingual, French and Breton. 

Breton was brought here by Celtic Britons, mainly Welsh I think, over 1000 years ago, and looks absolutely nothing like French! 

Governments has long made attempts to stamp out languages like Breton, fearing they support separatist movements. 

More recently, minority tongues have been officially accepted and even encouraged by central government. 

The Breton speakers are concentrated to the west of Brittany, so we’ll have to keep an ear out to see if we can pick up anyone speaking the ancient tongue.

We're the blue dot

. . . and zoomed in a bit