Motorhoming in Brittany

We are on holiday from the beginning of May until the end. Travelling through Brittany, mainly. We took a day crossing from Portsmouth on Brittany Ferries to Cherbourg (which is in Normandy, obviously) on Wednesday 7 May. The channel was quite rough.

Our first stop was a shortish run to Granville on the Normandy coast. Granville is in that tyre company's guide to the plus best villages in France. It's very touristico. We stayed the night on the above aire. It cost 6 euros which we had to obtain via buying ice cream in town. The aire is on a windy crag overlooking the sea. A massive museum is near, named after André Malraux. It has loads of coach parking. As one can see, the aire was pretty full.

We walked round the town centre in the evening sunshine, looking for bread shops and casinos.

A wonderful coast with good littoral walks. The casino is pretty hideous though.

The next morning, after torrential rain it brightened up and we motored south towards St Malo. Now you might ask, why didn't we sail there? First, there wasn't a berth on the night of 6 May, secondly the exorbitant cost of an over-night trip either earlier or later than 7 May.

Our first campsite stop was at Des Chevrets about 5 k outside St. Malo and right on the coast. We first stayed there on our second motorhome trip to France in 2010. It's lovely because besides being hard by a sandy beach there are easy and very interesting coastal walks through a nature reserve only slightly marred by one Nazi block-house. We were lucky enough to have the same pitch this time as that in 2010.

 The beach and the sea are down a cliff behind the pines.

 This is our pitch water supply. I am starting what should be an interesting search for the craziest French plumbing on campsites. There will be more like this.

 Des Chevrets has been totally-up graded in the sanitary block department with green doors and non-native 'wild flowers'. Don't be fooled by the sun shine. It followed more torrential rain.

 Real native wild flowers on a cliff face in the nature reserve. We did not see these on our last visit as it was in September. If I was any good at it I should be able to identify these!

 On the second day the weather as even nicer, after torrential rain in the early morning. Are these people doing what I call 'hang gliding'? It looks very courageous and hard work. We were impressed and watched them for about ten minutes. One can see how this littoral gained the name Emerald Coast.

 This shows how influential Antony Gormley has been since he stood around in the Mersey estuary.  Chris has just read that he is now encouraging Japanese people to jump off of high buildings.

 Above a succulent I can't identify, but below are blue bells and not a shady wood in site. These genuine, none-Spanish blue bells are on an exposed crag facing due north west in full sun.