Carnival in Plouharnel, April 11

Place: Plouharnel, a small town in Brittany... around 500 km from Paris

Date: April 17, 2011

Event: Town carnival

Lucky us arrived right on time for the launch of the town carnival in Plouharnel. There was quite a crowd! You will see Obelix and his menhir in one of the photos, but also a Chinese dragon and beautiful local kids with their parents and teachers I guess...

Chocolate Menhir in Plouharnel

3 meters high, 200 kilos of chocolate for this chocolate menhir in Plouharnel - it was made at the Biscuiterie des Menhirs, Sunday April 17, on a polystyrene structure covered by 4 cm of chocolate. The biscuit shop announced that it would be on display all through the summer.

This photo is taken from Ouest France website

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Crèpes, pancakes in Auray

For our last night in Brittany, we wanted to try La Belle Bio, a crèperie - galette restaurant in Auray. My daughters and I had the most delicious caramelized apple with salted butter caramel galette for dessert. My husband took a galette with caramelized bananas and salted butter caramel. See for yourself:

I recommend La Belle Bio crèperie which has a nice heated terrace upstairs, a friendly staff and the food is excellent.

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Back from Brittany

We're back from a week in Brittany, in the land of menhirs, dolmens and crèpes! 

I'll start here by a few words about our trip to Belle Ile. This island is a 45 minutes boat trip from Quiberon. Belle Ile is gorgeous, it's rugged landscapes captivate the eyes. Our trip to Belle Ile was on the 21st of April, we reserved a ferry+bus tour through Les Cars Verts agency. Didier our guide was very friendly and told us a few stories about the island. The tour included a visit of a biscuit factory... that was tasteful! I'll talk about crèpes and biscuits in another post :)

Here are a few shots of "Les Aiguilles de Port Coton" which has inspired Claude Monet... and a map of Belle Ile.