DEEP BREATH. EXHALE SLOWLY. A-A-A-H! We're on our own again. Ken and Dee left yesterday and are already home in Kalamazoo, happily back in their comfort zone. We traded in the big tank for a smaller car and set off on the long drive to the coast.
Breton cottage
Brittany sometimes feels more like Scotland than France; understandable given how often the English ruled on the Continent. Even the town names have a Celtic counterpart — Garnag for Carnac for instance, where we spent a couple of nights at a golf resort of all places. No golf for us but the price was right and the room was nice. This is a land of rocky shores, lush forests and charming cottages. And more than 3000 megaliths — menhirs, dolmens, cromlechs, tumuli and cairns — that predate Stonehenge by 100 years.
Megaliths in a row Giant stone and heather
No one is certain who moved the giant rocks miles and miles between 5000 and 3500 BCE. There are no stone circles, just parallel lines hundreds of meters long. Their purpose can only be guessed at, probably some spiritual thing. But that doesn’t make them any the less impressive
