Summer 2023 - Bretagne

Our stay in Bretagne was a success. The holiday home was fully equipped with a big garden and games for the kids, a 5 min. walk from the beautiful long sandy beach, lined by a pedestrian and biking trail, water sports centre and the village. As we discovered, the village had quite an active cultural program and a hightlight of the week was an open air cinema with my big girls at the beach (the movie was called "The Cow" and we followed the walking journey of an algerian man and his cow Jacqueline from Marseille to Paris - no where else than in Bretagne 🤣). It was nice to walk home in the dark only led by the stars and moonlight (and a few mosquitos!). Another taste of Bretagne was the long-waited village party "Fest Noz" where we witnessed the locals' love for line dancing, apple cidre and galettes! (unfortunately my youngest really hated the whole concept and so we had to leave early and very civilised). What else shall I share from our two weeks in Bretagne? We tempted again some watersports and spent an afternoon practicing catamaran. This is more of the dream of my husband, but as we are all good sports we rented two boats with an instructor. The wheather was lovely, the guide very good and we were quite proud of ourselves as he assured us we could next time go out by ourselves. I would like to offer more of the seaside activities to my kids, perhaps a half-day camp next summer if they are still into it? My heart stayed in the pretty medieval villages Bretagne has plenty of: Rochefort-sur-Terre, Roche-Bernard, Pont -Aven, as well as bigger cities of Vannes and Lorient. Strolling in the cobble-stoned streets, visiting art galleries or artisanal workshops, the castles most of them had..a very nice outing for a day. I also recalled our mishabs of last summer and was sure to reserve the table ahead in the tiniest villages, where it gets very busy at lunch breaks. 6 weeks abroad are almost behind. We wanted to offer our kids a summer full of adventure and open their eyes to discover different parts of the world. I asked my kids what they recall from this summers adventures and the answers were quite unanimous: beaches and first hotel in the Dominican republic (it was fab), spending time with their aunty in Mexico and snorkelling in the many cenotes. From Bretagne - the 350m/ 40 height triolienne we did in the Nautical center of Eric Tabary (truly terryifying), galettes (of course) and the ultimates: learning fishing for my son and ... shopping in Lorient's Zara for my girls (sniif). Thank you courageous little travellers for your resilience, it was not always easy and I think we are all already looking forward to tucking into our own dear beds. Part of the beauty of travelling is to return home..