2022
Hi guys,
You know that I like to share the places I discover and particularly those located in France. Have a look at this recap if you missed my previous posts.
Today, I am pleased to share with you my discovery of Pénestin, a small town in the south of Brittany France.
For some time now and especially since lockdown, my friends and I have been often hiking. Sport halls are currently closed in France so to ease off and to change our minds, we walk regularly for an hour, sometimes two and even more from time to time.
One day, a friend said, I challenge you with a walk of 25 km in a place that we do not know. Everyone thought the idea was great and we started to organize and plan a little weekend with friends with the goal of walking 4 to 5 hours.
Our choice fell on Pénestin which is about an hour by car from our home. It is a natural, rural place with many rural paths, a wild Atlantic coast and on the edge of the Vilaine river estuary. The planned hike consisted of approximately 15 km of customs paths (by the sea) and 10 km of country paths.
The days before our hike, we watched the weather forecast and unfortunatly it was not good, but we were keen to meet this challenge.
So we started at 8:30 with rain and lot of wind (up to 75km/h). We were all dressed in warm, waterproof clothes and we thought our day would be partly ruined by the bad weather. Lucky us, it didn't last so long !
During this walk, I told myself that the place was really nice and I had to share it on connect.
Pénestin, is almost surrounded by the ocean with 25 kilometers of coastline. There are cliffs of a very typical golden color (especially the beach of the gold mine).
There are many wild coves and sandy beaches.
The countryside is also very pretty.
As you can imagine, we had a very nice time all together and we enjoyed our walk.
If you are like me and if you love hiking, water activities (windsurfing, boating, kite-surfing, fishing), paragliding, French culture, its history and of course seafood, Pénestin would be a great place to stay.
I hope you enjoyed discovering a bit of France and that it will make you want to visit our beautiful country.
Have a nice day and see you around
Beautiful post @Julien44 as your style, before france was the destination which was in just in my wish list, but now it's on the top after post. What an awesome place is it, I love to see you after a long time.
Thanks for sharing my friend 🙂
Thanks for sharing a bit of france @Julien44
That's a fantastic idea, to walk in a place you don´t know, I like to do that, if you drive you miss a lot of details about places.
Of course I want to visit France, it is on my bucket list!
Nice post @Julien44.
I like to spend some time with nature. This really awesome place. Thanks for sharing with us.
