Paris, Loire, & Bretagne for Rachel (curated recs)
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Paris, Loire, & Bretagne for Rachel (curated recs)
Hilary Matson | @hilaryinparis
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Rachel and her husband Steve spent 2 weeks in France covering Paris, and then driving from the Loire (Tours) to La Baule and Bretagne (Concarneau and Perros-Guirec).
This guide includes:
4 recs in Perros-Guirec
15 recs along the drive from Perros-Guirec to Concarneau, including 4 honey farms
6 recs for visiting the salt flats
2 hotels in Paris
3 recs for Montmartre
15 Paris restaurant recs, with an emphasis on "unfussy foods" and close to the hotels
6 Paris breakfast & coffee recs
4 Paris wine bars & other bars
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Perros Guirec
Hiking the Pink Granite Coast
I recommend doing an out-and-balk walk as opposed to a longer walk where you bus back to the starting point. The bus is possible but a little more complicated to figure out.
The whole coast is the "cote de granite rose" so you can't really go wrong! A great place to start is the Sentier des Douaniers and then walk about 40 min to Ploumanac'h using either Phare de Mean Rus and/or La Plage de Saint Guirec as an end point. Then you can turn around and head back, or walk to the sculpture park (an additional 20 min) and then loop back to the coast to finish heading back.
Be sure to bring water!
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Ploumanac'h
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This can be a good endpoint to your walk (Phare de Mean Ruz or the Plage de Saint Guirec). It's about 40 min from the Sentier des Douaniers.
Phare = lighthouse
Plage = beach
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Plage Saint Guirec
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Hilary Matson | @hilaryinparis
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Hello et bonjour ! I'm (another) American in Paris.
I've lived in France since 2016 and I loooove sharing my Paris & France recs in hopes I can help others love this city and country as much as I do. I'm quite confident I've seen more of France than most French people, so no matter what you're looking for, I've (probably) done it!
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Perros-Guirec, France
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