Kerascoet

We went to this tiny hamlet that Patricia Wells, our faithful tour guide both the Ardèche and here, had mentioned was "magical". (She wrote a book in 1984 about restaurants and cool gastronomic products in different towns in France.)

It was very cute with all the thatched roofs that you could see upclose. The roofs are very thick and made one wonder about the building process, how long did they last, were they fantastic insulators, what was the fire hazard...all those question one has when there is no one around to ask and no Google accessible!

Because it is almost spring the flower boxes interest me. This with the lace curtains, the Breton blue and the thatched roof was very photogenic.

In Pont Aven (which will be described in a later blog) we saw a painting by one of Paul Gaugin's followers that showed a communal oven and traditionally dressed Breton women.

A further comment on Brittany is all the little hamlets that we drive through and miss if we blink. The letter "K" and "P" are so common and the names; we have no idea how to pronounce. The language is Breton and is a Celtic language. We've already butchered French!