A grey day until mid afternoon when the sun appeared – warm and dry so ideal for walking. Today we took the short drive back to the coast to visit the beaches of St Briac-sur-Mer and choosing to park up just after crossing the estuary on the outskirts of town and follow the GR34 our new friend, we encountered our first beach – Plage du Bechet lined with pretty changing huts (believe me these are not beach huts as we know them, you are doing little more than change in these little huts)….

Next up was Plage de Grand Salinette with Chateau de Nessay overlooking from the headland….

Closely followed by Plage de Petite Salinette….

Then came Plage du Perron linking a small island at low tide, as now….

With Plage du Port aux Chevaux just on the other side….

Across another headland in quick succession are the final 3 beaches – Plage du Tertre Pele, Plage de Port Hue and lastly but by no means leastly Plage de la Garde Guerin….

Here we ended our coastal walk as just beyond lies Longchamps beach that we visited yesterday and made our way back through the village to the van. As the sun is coming out now we decided to extend our day and drove back across the bridge to park up in Lancieux and here GR34 let us down a bit as we had to keep dipping up and down the village streets to access the various beaches – at one point we ended up in someone’s back garden having taken some steps back up from one of the beaches – nevertheless we enjoyed each of the beaches one by one – Plage de la Ceisais, Plage de Rocher and Plage de l’Islet….

Finally reaching the main beach – Plage St Sieuc…

Enough now – it is really warm and we are overdressed, time to get back to the van and make our way back to the Aire in Beaussais-sur-Mer so we can eat and put our feet up.

Thoughts of the day:

• I do think that Scotland has ruined me – it was such a combo – remoteness, endless deserted beaches, sea, hills and Islands…
• Though we don’t meet many people in our day everyone always says hello, young and old alike and at least now Bonjour or Bonsoir come naturally!

Today’s stats:

• Miles driven – 8
• Miles walked – 9
• Beaches – 12 (a record may be?)
• Aire – £11.01