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Showing posts with label Brittany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brittany. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Textures

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Mont Saint-Michel
Friday, June 4, 2010

Mont Saint-Michel

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Le Mont Saint-Michel , probably France's most famous abbey, rises improbably from a small, rocky island, now connected to land by a caus...

Dinan

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Yesterday Susie blogged about the Breton city of Dinan. Here's a little more on Dinan from my perspective. Dinan, despite being miles ...
Thursday, June 3, 2010

Dol and Mont Dol

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From the flat Breton countryside southwest of the Mont Saint Michel rises le Mont Dol, a rocky outrcropping that, in its form, is a small mo...

Le Musée de Bretagne

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Le Musée de Bretagne , a wonderful museum in Rennes that reopened in new quarters in 2006, helps visitors learn about Breton peoples and cul...
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Of Tides and Boats

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The bay surrounding the Mont Saint-Michel has the highest tides of Europe. The tides move so fast that Victor Hugo wrote that the waters com...
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