Étang du Loc’h

We had a wonderful nights sleep in our creepy little campsite. It was completely silent and we both woke up at 8am, had coffee and some baguettes for breakfast and hit the road at 10am.
Our first stop of the day was on route, and another find from the Tour de France. The route des alingnements de Carnac. These are standing stones running a distance of 4km dating back to 500 BC. Nobody really knows why they are there but they are in perfectly straight lines and start with smaller rocks one end and they gradually get larger. Also each rock has the same depth of it’s base in the ground. Such an amazing site, I couldn’t resist hiding in a field and sending the drone up.
From Carnac we headed north to the city of Lorient and the port.
This is where le base is, a huge 3 building submarine base that was first built for use in world war 1 and gradually grew bigger over the years until the french MOD abandoned it it 1997.
It is a huge structure that was Bombed repeatedly by the allies in world war 2 with “tall boy” bombs but nothing could penetrate it’s 3.5 meter thick roofs. We even got a tour on a daphnè class submarine which used to house 50-60 men in it’s day.
From lorient we drove 5 miles to the beach and found out first camp spot but something was a little strange.
There was a dedicated motorhome area but small peaugot partner vans kept on pulling in with single old men in. They would stop side on to Wanda and just stare at us. Then move off and 5 minutes later come back. Then a few cars came in and did exactly the same.
Then we noticed that a couple would get out of the cars, urinate up the hedge and get back in to the car and finally a van pulled up next to us with a proper weirdo in. He just stared through our windows, then he opened his drivers door and stared through the windows and finally he had a piss right next to us.
This was a perverts paradise, a dogging spot for dirty old men so we put our things away and drove further down the coast and found another park up for the night.
This place is nice, it’s nearer the beach. We’ve parked inbetween 2 piles of gravel so no vanlifers can pull up at stupid hour and it’s sheltered from the wind. We’ve had a walk on the beach to watch the surfers and explored the remains of an old fort next to us, so we’ve settled in ready for another long drive tomorrow.Read more