A mostly sunny day for us today, a bit of a coastal breeze – ideal walking weather. We started off today with a bit of a drive down to and around St Brieuc a sizeable town / city – we even went him a dual carriageway for the first time in quite a while! Our first destination was on the outskirts of St Brieuc in the small village of St Laurent de la Mer and Plage les Nouelles – not so much a sandy beach but more of a shell beach with low tide sand/mud flats and as our parking spot was less than ideal we didn’t linger here….

Next stop was Plage des Rosaires – a long stretch of course sand sprinkled with shells of every description where we enjoyed a nice crunchy walk…

A bit further up the road at Binic we visited Plage des Godalins, a much nicer long stretch of firm sand for us to walk along….

A short hop up the coast from there took us to our Aire for the night at Plage du Moulin….

Once settled in we took a walk along the coastal path to the neighbouring seaside village of St Quay-Portrieux visiting its handful of beaches along the way, starting with Plage du Portrieux…

Plage de la Comptesse….

Plage du Chatelet….

The infinity pool….

Plage du Casino…

And finally Plage de la Greve Noire….

A lovely circular walk on a lovely sunny afternoon.

Thoughts of the day:

• Sadly as we wander through these seaside towns we note that there are a lot of closed up businesses and not just for the season – though the tourist season here is much shorter than in the UK which surely must make it even harder for them to survive.
• It is good to see that the cyclist and walkers are very well catered for in the network of cycle / footpaths that we are using.

Today’s stats:

• Miles driven – 27
• Miles walked – 8
• Beaches – 9
• Aire – £9.16 no ehu