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• Since 2001, Westcapades organize customized brittany 8-seats minibus tour with your breton expert guide/driver.
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  With Marc, you discover a very unique breton culture, mixing architectural heritage, natural parks, traditional food and drinks, meetings with local people. Accommodation can be in comfortable historical breton castles !
  From four generations of breton towns (towns from the gallic-roman age, religious villages growing up around the monastries founded in the high middle age, feudal cities established close to a Chateau, peopled by nobles, monks and craftsmen, coastal towns and fishing ports) to the mystery of the megaliths (3000 standing stones erected around 4500 BC!), you will meet the breton celtic heritage, sister of the irish and welsh heritage.
  The breton peninsula is actually the only french celtic region, and one of the most popular summer resort in France. Bordered by the english channel on the north coasts and by the atlantic ocean on the south and west coasts, Brittany is the most westerly french land. Gently warmed by the gulf stream, Brittany is an ideal destination from April to October.

  This is an example, a 10 days/9nights tour we organized for 6 nice friends from US Florida:
  Day 1
  Arrival to Dinard airport, 20 mns from St-Malo.
  Welcome at the station with "Name" sign by your english-speaking guide/driver (Marc)
  Transfer to your hotel
  You will stay to St-Malo for 2 days, ideal to discover this historical place and taste some very fresh seafood or varieties of sea fishes and shellfishes..after a walk on the XVth ramparts.
  free time for Dinner
  Day 2
  full Breakfast at your hotel
  Full day tour with your english-speaking guide/driver from your hotel to Cancale/Mont StMichel using the coastal road.
  You will discover natural sites from St-Malo to Cancale (like Anse Duguesclin with its rocky islet, Anse du Verger with its ancient chapel, Pointe du Meinga a "green irish" peninsula, Pointe du Grouin with its panoramic view on the Ocean at 200 feet, Cancale its picturesque port and its famous oyster farms ...and oyster market "taste some fresh oysters with a good muscadet/Lie wine it is delicious!", on the afternoon discover the Mont st mIchel 's Bay, its huge scenery, Mount Dol and of course Mont St Michel rock 1000 years of history with its abbey and medieval village...listed by the Unesco as a world heritage
  come back to your hotel
  free time for dinner (will give you some good adresses to taste local specialities like Crepes and Galettes with cider)
  Hotel
  Day 3
  Breakfast at your hotel
  Full day tour with your guide discovering the Emerald Coast "cote d'Emeraude" in french
  From Dinard to Cap Frehel, you will visit the Rance Tidal Work "usine maremotrice de la Rance" unique in the world, Dinard rococo XIXth resort with its private mansions and nice beaches (some good antique shops), St-Briac tiny bourgeoise place, St-Jacut , St-Cast typical breton resorts, Fort Lalatte (XIVth fortress)...
  At the end of the evening, transfer to Dinan, a medieval city founded 1000 years ago. You will be like in the Middle Age time! In the heart of Dinan, everything is original and dates from the XII to XIXth century, it is a lively place where restaurants, shops, wonderful antique shops are all situated in half-timbered houses since several centuries. Quite unique in France. Dinan has got its riverport (in the natural rance valley) connected to the old city through the Jerzual steep street (famous XIIth c. sloping street with its craftshops and its strong ramparts)...you will pass two lovely nights there, I am sure the best place in all brittany!
  free time for dinner in one of the best restaurant of the city or typically french bistrot
  Hotel

• Day 4
  Breakfast at your hotel
  Full day tour with your guide discovering the well-preserved and authentic Rance valley (romantic valley with its typical XIIth c. fishing village St-Suliac and other secret places...), Becherel (historical tiny village well-known for its 12 bookshops, antiques, and a very good creperie...) and Combourg castle (where Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand is born, a medieval castle who still belongs to the same aristocrat family nowadays, direct descendants from Chateaubriand himself!...)
  free time for dinner
  Hotel

  Day 5
  Breakfast at your hotel
  Free time to go to the Dinan's traditionnal french market (just on the back of your hotel!), one of the biggest in all Brittany (you will find everything you need or want to taste ...cheese from all france...St-nectaire, pont l'eveque, roquefort... , sausages, andouilles, patés de campagne, flowers, vegetables, chickens, garments, jewels,...speak with french-breton locals, having a glass of red wine avec un bon camembert "A votre santé Messieurs Dames!"... lunch on place with for example a Galette saucisse
  In the afternoon, transfer to Quimper (South West brittany) , one of the most beautiful ones in all western france. Its medieval quarter (XV XVIth c), its St-Corentin cathedral (XIIIth) with its typical breton architecture, Musee des Beaux Arts (with some of the most exciting paintings in France from Boudin, Corot, Bernard, Serusier,..., Musée de la Faience (Quimper is known in the world for its ceramics signed "HB Henriot")... You will really enjoy this historical place.
  free time for dinner
  Hotel
  Day 6
  Breakfast at your hotel
  Morning discovering the "Pays Bigouden"(www.paysb.com) ; from natural sites La Torche to Penmarc'h, breton trad' fishing ports Le Guilvinec, Lesconil, the charming peninsula L'ile Tudy village, the bourgeoise seaside resort Benodet, Concarneau walled city, Pont-Aven (www.pontaven.com) painting village (where were living Gauguin, Bernard, Filiger, Armstrong painters on XIXth)
  Afternoon, Locronan XVIIth c histrorical village (www.locronan.org), Pointe du Raz natural site
  free time for dinner
  Hotel

  Day 7
  Breakfast at your hotel
  full day tour discovering the Armorican Natural park, a scenery which is totally well-preserved, and did not change since 100 years at least. Visits of XIII/XIVth c churches and picturesque ancient villages, pink granit coast with Ploumanac'h rocks, the Menhir de St-Uzec (the biggest standing stone in Brittany , 6 meters, dating from 4000 years!)
  free time for dinner
  Hote

  Day 8
  Breakfast at your hotel
  morning and free time for lunch at Ile de brehat (typically breton village, tropical pants, and natural island on the large from Paimpol with an amazing lighthouse...)
  afternoon Treguier with its world famous St-Yves (patron of the lawyers - each year on St-Yves 19th may, catholic lawyers from all the world are coming here!) cathedral (www.brittany-bretagne.com/pg/treguier.htm), and La roche-Jagu XVth c castle with its exotic and huge garden dominating the Trieux river (www.bretagne-celtic.com/chateau_rochejagu.htm)...
  free time for dinner
  Hotel

  Day 9
  Breakfast at your hotel
  morning visit of King Arthur forest (Broceliande) W from Rennes, and Rennes historical city (www.brittany-bretagne.com/pg.rennes.htm), ideal for shopping, museums, a lively place you will really enjoy for your last day in Brittany
  free time
  Hotel

  Day 10
  breakfast
  free time and transfer to St-Malo/Dinard airport or terminal ferry

  
  Practical informations:
  several US and international references on request
  only private tours, on request
  free quote on contact@westcapades.com
  from 2 to 8 people / minibus
  +/- 8 days / 7 nights
  from 1500 euros / pers
  including all minibus transfers, english-speaking breton guide/driver during all tour, commentaries, documents and visits, accommodation Doubleroom with private facilities in 3 or 4 star hotel, continental breakfast (you can ask for king size beds in some hotels or castles)
  depart from Rennes TGV station, St-Malo terminal ferry, Dinard airport (can be arranged from other place)
  welcome to families, friends
  Payment by CC or bank transfer
  30% deposit will be required as a confirmation

  List of options (can be separated or mixed):
  option accommodation in XVIth century authentic breton castles ! (with welcome, visit and meeting by the owner, a unique souvenir!)
  option art and painting in Brittany (Gauguin lived in Brittany, as Picasso, Monet, Renoir and Filiger...discover their )
  option flea markets, famous breton ceramics, and breton antique stores (ideal for antic collectors)
  option breton golf green fees (several nice golf courses and links in brittany)
  option traditional food & drink including meals in breton restaurants and creperies (taste our crepes and galettes, seafood platters, saltwater fishes, cider,apple liquors and wines...)
  option folk breton music night festival (easy collective dances done in circles, all kinds of breton and celtic music can be heard, a tradition dating from centuries)
  

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Brittany is the most popular summer resort in France, after the french Riviera. Western France is the wildest and most untamed of all the french regions. This peninsula is situated between the Atlantic Ocean and the english Channel. Until XVIth century, Brittany has been an independent Duchy, it gives a very individual identity to this area: Breton people have a beautiful and rich culture, a breton language and an historical heritage closed to those of Scotland, Wales, and Ireland (...and a distinctive rich cuisine too !). The unspoiled beaches, rocky coves, soaring cliffs, and offshore islands are really attractive. Carnac and its world¹s most important megalithic sites, historical town of St-Malo french capital of the Sea, Dinard elegant XIXth century resort, visit the medieval marvel of Dinan, Rennes with its pedestrianed old city ideal for shopping, Pont-Aven or Quimper an exciting cultural town...do not miss picturesque fishing villages, or traditional festivals called ³fest noz² where all local people dance and drink a mervellous cider! Brittany is full of surprises...Do you know the legendary King Arthur? He still live here in the Paimpont forest, where the young Arthur received the sword Excalibur from the fairy Vivian. Mysterious and enchanting, Brittany is an unforgettable holiday destination.

 

Dinan the Medieval city

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Individuals: transport+Dinan night 95 euro
Groups: Dinan night 45 euro
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