A lovely, mostly sunny, albeit breezy day for us today as we set off the short distance to Dinard finding parking on a wide leafy lane leading to our first beach of the day – Plage de Prieure…

Here we were also afforded a stunning view across the emerald waters at St Malo…

An interesting concrete path half way up the rocky cliffs below Dinard with some amazing properties seemingly teetering above us, lead us all the way around a number of beaches…

The first beach we encountered was the lovely wide sandy bay of Plage de l’Ecluse with its fab infinity sea water pool…

Next up was the smaller but stunning Plage de Port Salut with an interesting sculpture? above the pathway of a large boulder wedged into a tree….

The last beach along the coast path around Dinard is Plage de St Enogat, here we sat for a while watching the kite surfing out in the bay before making our way across town back to the van…

We made a quick stop on the outskirts of Dinard to catch the 3 remains beaches of Dinard – Plage de Port Blanc, Plage de la Fourberie and Plage de la Fosse aux Vaults….

A short drive took us to the small resort of St Lunaire where again we were lucky with parking and enjoyed a final stroll to take in the wide sandy bays of Plage de St Lunaire….

And Longchamps Beach….

An absolute corker of a day – the only shame being that non of these places had anywhere suitable for us to park overnight so we have gone inland a little to the village of Beaussais-sur-Mer and are nicely settled into a small quiet Aire for the night.

Thoughts of the day:

• We have happened upon the GR34 which is a coastal path running some 1240 miles from St Malo to St Nazaire – originally used by customs officers patrolling for smugglers but now a public footpath and one we’re enjoying immensely.
• We are enjoying the fact that when both walking and driving through built up areas the roads and pavements are very wide and no one seems to be in a rush!
• I think covering the coast of Brittany may take me a while as around every corner is yet another beach – happy doesn’t even come close.

Today’s stats:

• Miles driven – 23
• Miles walked – 8.5
• Beaches – 9
• Aire – £11.01