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On the WATERFRONT
On the WATERFRONT Gillian Thornton explores the shoreline around Brittany’s Baie de Quiberon. Cote Sauvage, Quiberon peninsula liberally sprinkled across Brittany but nowhere is there anything to rival Les Alignements at Carnac, a short hop inland from the seashore. Think menhirs. Lots and lots of menhirs. To save you counting, there are more than 3000 of these ancient monuments, the majority grouped in four clusters of serried lines that stretch for 4 km and cover 40 hectares. Impressive from any angle. Standing stones Saint-Pierre Quiberon For an area that takes up a relatively modest stretch of Brittany’s south coast, the Baie de Quiberon boasts some pretty powerful statistics. As the seagull flies, it’s barely 30 km from the mouth of the Etel river in the west to Pointe Kerpenhir in the east, but the shoreline of this captivating area stretches for an impressive 360 km around inlets and islands, river banks and ocean shores. Numbering just 24 communes, the Baie de Quiberon boasts 50 sandy beaches, 25 km of dunes, and 15 km of wild sea coast, whilst inland, its lush, wooded interior is crisscrossed by cycle tracks, walking trails and bridleways. An outdoor playground, whatever your chosen activity. But there’s another side to this idyllic corner of the Morbihan. Prehistoric monuments are Auray Morbihan I bag my first menhirs during a guided tour by e-bike from Carnac where I collect my two wheels from bike hire company A Bicyclette and meet up with genial guide Alexandre from Mobilboard. Following dedicated cycle tracks and the occasional quiet lane, we make regular stops along the five sandy beaches of stylish Carnac-Plage and on around the headland to the smart marina at La Trinité-sur-Mer. Then we loop inland and follow an off-road track into sun-dappled woodland where a line of menhirs borders the path at regular intervals. It’s surprisingly humbling to touch stones older than Stonehenge that were put here by Neolithic settlers some 6,000 years 66 | The Good Life France The Good Life France | 67
