Day 14 (Leaving Trégastel - Carnac - La Rochelle) = 454Km

Today we left Trégastel, Hotel Bon Sejour and its delicious breakfast (all homemade food... yumii). We said goodbye to our speedy but very nice hotel hostess and took off to La Rochelle.

We also left Brittany region and it is definitely a place to visit a second time if we have opportunity. After all it is the place for the growth of the legend of King Arthur and Merlin ;)

On our way we had decided to stop at a location in the south of Brittany called Carnac. The reason was a visit to the site with the worlds greatest concentration of mégalithes (3000). It is an interesting location to visit if one is somewhat close by.

An endless field of mégaliths

They are called "Alignments of Carnac" (here you can really see why the name)

A "dolmen" (collective burial chamber)

Also it was more or less halfway to La Rochelle so it was a perfect stop for a lunch break before continuing our journey.

After another 3h30 drive we finally reached La Rochelle. This place seems to be a famous beach place amongst Parisiens and is close by to Ile de Ré which we wanted to visit. It is also very close to a very small island known for the TV game show FORT BOYARD :) I am not sure if we will have time to visit that place though.

We arrived quite tired after a total of 6h30 drive so there is not much to report about La Rochelle. From what we have seen by a short night walk is that it has an attractive sea-port area with some night life that in high season must be really buzzing (it is October and there were still quite some people around).

 "Street arcades" in La Rochelle

Nightlife still buzzing in October

Tower overlooking the port

Remains of old fortifications...just by the port area

Here is an excerpt of Breton music by the way LOL

P.S. Getting close to final destination now :)