Day 13 ( Trégastel and the "sentier de douaniers")

Today was all about relaxing at this cozy and quite unique family run hotel (will explain better in a while) and doing a bit of promenade along the "sentier de douaniers" (former coastguard footpath) to really appreciate the beauty of the pink granite coast.

Just before lunch we went to a town called Ploumena'ch by car to see if it would be worthwhile to walk the full coastal path until this place (that would be a 5h walk tour). We took some photos but we decided it was too far and it did not seem to be much different from what we are finding closer to where we are staying now (besides we have been walking around for 13 days now LOL, it is time to take it easy :P )

Pink granite windmill at Poumena'ch

Sculpture park at Ploumena'ch

So the shorter walk (around 1h30) presented again really amazing views and details of the coast line and we would recommend it to anyone fan (and even not so fans) of such types of walks. Some details we caught on camera like amazing rock formations resembling (with some imagination) human or not so human faces... quite funny.

The area that we covered by walking (along the coast)

"The FACE"

"Equilibrium"

Why walk when you can "float" LOL ;)

The queen's trone ;)

After the walk it was, of course, time to relax again at the hotel.

Reception area at our hotel

The hotel as a selection of several games like chess, dames, and backgammon at the bar, reception area. Before dinner we decided to play some chess :) (all of this while viewing the sea - ahh the good life - if only it could be always like this (LOL just joking)

Ahhh, and then we come to the hotel itself. It is like we said before, a small family run hotel. We changed rooms today because there was a small misunderstanding on the booking and they upgraded us to one with a terrace - fine by us :) It seems all rooms are different here.

Another of the bedrooms in the hotel

Another experience that we had here is the complete refusal to speak any other language other than french LOL. The owners (husband and wife) clearly understand English but they only use it as a last resort. For us it is fine, we are remembering our lost French learned in school maybe when we were 12-13 years old. It does however give rise to major linguistic chaos with french mixed with english sometimes in the most odd ways.

The name of the hotel is "Bon Sejour", by the way. So, from what we have seen the husband works in the bar area most of the time and the wife is taking care of most other things it seems, the reception itself and the restaurant. We have learned that the restaurant is actually a Michelin guide recommended restaurant, and today we confirmed that she can really do good food (already the breakfast in the morning was giving such indication).

The husband is a very strange man...he can seem very nice and half a second later he can seem completely bored by the customers or annoyed at something (be afraid, be very afraid LOLOL). The wife is the opposite, she is always nice, but speaks of course almost only French with the added feature of speaking it at the speed of sound (which you can imagine makes it quite interesting for us to try and decode what she is saying :)

We understood that if she is the one taking care of most of the hotel and additionally being the "chef" she must have developed this type of speed...

It also seems that we are the first Portuguese EVER in this hotel... unbelievable we thought!!! Most of the foreigners are English, Spanish and Italian.

Tomorrow it is time to leave again... now we will really start to get closer to Portugal. We are leaving Brittany and really heading south finally :)