The mrs and I took advantage of one of Brittany ferries 4 day breaks, leaving on a Thursday evening from Plymouth, and returning on the Sunday evening, cost about £190 return. We relied on Ibis for rooms and used the one in Quimper as a base, each night cost about £32. I wasn`t sure what to look at so we did a bit of googling before hand and generally meandered around taking in a few castles, coastal towns and came across a few WW2 related places. A few pics of the bunkers around the Pointe de Penhir...
This peculiar ruin has a tragic story behind it.... Saint-Pol-Roux - Wikipedia Ironically these lads who thought it a good idea to stretch a ratchet strap across the ruins and use it as a climbing frame were German.....
This is the museum of Chaonerrie, a rebellion during the French revolution....curiously housed in a WW2 bunker near Quiberon, there are several bunkers around this one, and a few in the sand dunes....
Thanks for the posting reminding me of a first class holiday we had in the area...stayed between Lanveoc and le Fret. The French naval memorial is most impressive looking....looking across the Atlantic...first stop New York I would think. As I recollect,close in the area of the memorial is a bunker which has been converted to a museum.It had a number of photographs relating the the liberation of the area with the resistance prominent....a lady wearing black on a motor vehicle who I gained the impression was a leading figure in the resistance featured in the collection. The bunkers must have contained formidable coastal gunnery protecting the southern entrance to the Rade de Brest.However when US forces took Brest,it was from a land side thrust from the east as US forces broke out from Normandy into Brittany. As regards coastal,defences,a typical set is the ones which cover the entrance to the small port of Le Conquet,north of Brest, as seen from the sea.Daily returns are available to Ushant from Cameret which call at Le Conquet. The Le Conquet fortifications can be clearly seen and appear to have been left as they were, built into the rock faces.
