{"id":30746,"date":"2018-09-25T05:37:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T03:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=30746"},"modified":"2018-09-30T22:40:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T20:40:47","slug":"french-culture-bretagne-bis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/french-culture-bretagne-bis\/","title":{"rendered":"French Culture – Bretagne bis"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve written before about the lovely French region of\u00a0la Bretagne<\/strong><\/a>. And of course, last summer I shared a whole series of post following up on my trip to France for my step-daughter’s amazing wedding<\/a>. Well my son and I recently got back from another amazing trip there and we discovered a wonderful new\u00a0coin<\/strong>\u00a0(corner)<\/em> that I want to share with you.<\/p>\n

A quick reminder: ‘bis<\/em>‘ is a French term that refers to the second of something. Read more here<\/a>.<\/div>\n

For our trip to France this year, we returned to the lovely little town of Josselin<\/a> where we stayed last year. We didn’t get to spend as much time in town cette ann\u00e9e<\/strong><\/a> because we were\u00a0toujours partis \u00e0 droite \u00e0 gauche<\/strong> (always out here and there <\/em>[lit.\u00a0to the right to the left<\/em>]). We returned to some of our favorite spots like\u00a0la ville de Rochefort-en-Terre<\/a><\/strong> and to\u00a0le for\u00eat de Broceliande<\/strong><\/a>, but our favorite new discovery was la c\u00f4te de Granit rose\u00a0<\/strong>(The Pink Granite\u00a0Coast).<\/em><\/p>\n

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La c\u00f4te de Granit rose <\/strong>is a lovely stretch of picturesque towns, rocky outcroppings, and sheltered beaches along Brittany’s northern coast. It runs\u00a0approximately from the town of Perros-Guirec<\/a> to the commune of Ploumanac’h<\/a>\u00a0* on la Manche<\/strong> (the English Channel)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The region derives its name from the very interesting (and large) rock formations of pink granite that, in the right light, really show off their pink color.\u00a0I live in a part of\u00a0les \u00c9tats-Unis\u00a0<\/strong>(the United States)<\/em> where we have really large granite boulders that were left behind by the glaciers during the last\u00a0p\u00e9riode glaciaire<\/strong> (ice age)<\/em> but I’ve never seen anything like the massive boulders that make up the\u00a0c\u00f4te.\u00a0<\/strong>Il faisait nuageux\u00a0<\/strong>(it was cloudy<\/em>) when we were there, so we couldn’t fully enjoy the effects, but it was still a really lovely spot.<\/p>\n

*\u00a0Plouc<\/em> is a French slang\u00a0injure (insult)<\/em>\u00a0that is used pejoratively to refer to people from the\u00a0campagne (country).\u00a0<\/em>According to my\u00a0belle-fille<\/strong>, the word traces its origins back to all the\u00a0Bretons (people from la Bretagne)\u00a0<\/em>who moved to Paris due to all the towns in the region that start with ‘plou’ (the breton word for ‘parish’).<\/em><\/p>\n

Click here to watch<\/a> a great reportage<\/strong> (news story)<\/em> about the chateau de Josselin.<\/strong> Or click here to read<\/a> a lovely description of the town \u2026 from 149 years ago! Like much of rural France, not much has changed since Mrs. Bury Palliser wrote this travel journal.<\/div>\n

All photos (C) Tim Hildreth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

I’ve written before about the lovely French region of\u00a0la Bretagne. And of course, last summer I shared a whole series of post following up on my trip to France for my step-daughter’s amazing wedding. Well my son and I recently got back from another amazing trip there and we discovered a wonderful new\u00a0coin\u00a0(corner) that I…<\/p>\n

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