Just about every Sunday, we join the community to a Catholic mass. Each town in the area has a church, and they take turns each Sunday on a rotation. When we went to the several-hundred-year-old church in Tréguennec for the mass, we had to stop by the beach on the way home, since it's so close!
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| The land surrounding the beach is federally protected, so the natural beauty is preserved. We saw some hunters and their dogs searching for rabbits as we walked down a path between low shrubs towards the dunes in the distance. |
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| The beach is mostly sand, but there's also a smattering of beautiful rocks! We all went home with our pockets filled with striped rocks and spotted rocks, large and tiny, smooth and rough. |
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| We were there at low tide... the beach is huge! Yanni finds shells and Nico and Moisés run around in the distance. |
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| Everybody's happy! |
Christiane took us to visit her friends, Helena and Vincent, about an hour and a half away. Helena is American, so their children are fully bilingual, French/English. It was fun for Moisés to have some buddies he could easily talk to!!! We visited for the better part of a Sunday, and they took us to Pointe de Dinan, a beautiful area near their house.
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| We saw a lot of surfers here. |
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| A view of the French Atlantic coast. |
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| A natural bridge, beaten out by the ocean. Instead of taking a left when the path forked, to cross this bridge, we took a right to see... |
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| ...a gigantic stone turtle! |
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| Moisés and Yanni play with a friend in English! |
We worked Nico's schedule to have a Saturday off (the community works 9:30am to 1pm) and took a walk to see a dairy farm, whose owner had invited Nico to come visit. We took three wrong turns, but it was never really a problem because we were walking through such beautiful countryside.
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| Beginning our journey: the road outside of our house. |
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| A beautiful thatched roof nearby. |
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| (Unedible) ripening berries... in winter! |
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| We saw several different colors of blooming flowers... I'm not used to seeing such variety in winter! |
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| We found a beautiful old communal laundry station built into the side of a bridge. We imagined people gathering to wash their clothes and chat. Here, Nico and Moisés pretend to wring out their laundry. |
Joel took us to the port at Guilvinec, a 20 or 30 minute drive straight south. This ancient port still has fisher boats coming in and out, and a large market where we bought some fresh huître (oysters) to eat raw with vinegar.
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| Climbing the stairs from the port to the market. |
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| The coast is rough and rocky. Joel told us that this type of rock is known to be especially good for millstones. People used to cut a circle in the rock at low tide, jam chunks of wood in the crack, and when the tide came in, the wood would swell up and pop the stone out...! We found some perfect circles where this probably happened. |
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