We’re traveling slowly on this trip. A couple days in each place at least so we have time to explore a bit. The days of riding are long enough to take the whole day, and so we want to have a day at our destination.
One aspect of this area of France is that the place names are unusual, for France anyway. They are often French transliterations of Bretagne language, which is a close cousin of Welsh and Cornish and other Celtic languages. Bretagne language is still in common use although I don’t think we’ve heard it yet. We saw signs for Tréflaouénan, Plouénan, Plouezoc’h and Locquirec! Not your typical French.
The route is again ingenious as it stitches together tiny roads, footpaths and some small gravel roads to travel from place to place. It’s like someone found all the best roads that only locals know, and put them all together. It’s delightful. We have to traverse a mid-sized town called Lannion, but again the route is amazingly well done. Drivers here are well trained too: they stop politely just as you come to a crosswalk and even sometimes just to let you make a turn. Very pleasant surprise.
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