Vannes - 6/4

Drifting down the coast during yet another perfect weather day, we visited Les Alignments de Carnac, meaning alignment of stones (menihirs) dating back to 4,500 BC and the largest collection of Neolithic stones in the west and predating Stonehenge by 1,000 years. We did a nice circuit across the site (some 3,000 standing stones). No one knows what they were used for.

Then onto the Abbey Saint Gildas du Rhuys, Saint Gildas the Wise was a prominent 6th-century British monk, historian, and religious reformer. Gildas became renowned for his learning, spiritual leadership, and his influential work De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae (“On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain”), which remains one of the few contemporary accounts of post-Roman Britain and the coming of the Anglo-Saxons. We could only visit the adjacent church, a fine specimen of Romanesque architecture. We settled into our spa only to go out again for a BCHEF burger. Back to our spa, we enjoyed massages and their hamman. Dinner later in town at Le Six Sous.Read more