PENTREZ to LE CONQUET

TUESDAY, 25th JUNE, 2019

It was a gorgeous sunny day, a lovely day for a drive.  We took off across country, through Chateaulin and on to the fast road, the E60/N165 towards Brest.  First stop was at a le Clerc cafeteria for coffee costing 1 Euro each including a little cake, and shortly after we joined the end of a traffic jam caused by roadworks leading onto the Pont de L'Iroise into Brest.

As we had no desire to venture into Brest which is huge, we followed the ring road which skirted the city and then turned left to head to the coast, following it round to Le Coquet and ducking in and out of narrow lanes to scenic sites along the way.

Le Fort du Minou, built in 1697 and made of stone ramparts 6 metres high, surrounded by a 3 metre deep and 9.5 metre wide moat.  One of the first transatlantic underwater telegraph cables was laid here in1869. 

We stopped at a few lovely beaches along the way, several people were sunbathing, some were in swimming and the water looked inviting.  Mike's inner child was disappointed when, on reaching Plougonvelin where he had hoped to try his skill on the zip wire, he found that it doesn't operate on Tuesdays.

At Pointe de St-Mathieu we stopped to look at the light house

but weren't at all disappointed to find that it too is not open on Tuesdays, we'd not have been persuaded to climb the 163 steps to the top for the  magnificent 360 degree view anyway.  Instead, we wandered through the nearby church ruins

and to the National Memorial for the sailors fallen for France.

At Le Coquet we checked in to our B&B, then went for a stroll around town, stopping at a bar for beer on the terrace in the sunshine, and later shared a pizza and a bottle of very good cider before strolling back home.