Non licet omnibus adire Brivatum (Britanny, pt 2)

"Not everybody is permitted to go to Brest", as the learned old pirate in the Asterix comics sagely observes. As it happened, we actually made it to Brest - whereas other places of interest, such as Quimper, Concarneau, Pont-Aven or the previously mentioned Douarnenez, dropped off the agenda. On the whole, it felt to me as if we weren't doing anything culturally relevant at all. This is not wholly true (as this picspam will show), but compared to the high amount of educational sight-seeing that I normally enjoy on my holidays, this year the most I seemed to get was a Japanese-style photo stop (rather than the extensive study of ruins, let alone leisurable strolls through museums). I now feel with my father, who began to chafe when my brother and I insisted on a beach day during family holidays back in the day! Now I, too, have become that sort of restless traveller! No wonder I resorted to repetitive photographing and competitive sandcastle-building!

It needs to be said that it wasn't only the kids who sabotaged my educational ambitions; it was also extremely hard to get the mother-in-law and Marc to express interest (let alone delight) in any sort of activity beyond the daily grocery shoping. But they didn't say "No walks or excurses for us, please", either. So Jörg and I made suggestions, they agreed without much enthusiasm, we went, and sometimes they seemed to like our excurses well enough, but it was like pulling teeth. Having to push both the kidlets and half of the grown-ups, all the time? Are you not interested or are you just insecure? Aaargh. No thanks.

Nonetheless, we managed to see a few interesting things. And now you will, too.

( Here goes another cut for length and picture-heaviness. )

Oof, that's again enough for one post! Some hiking, the Holy Mountain of Menez-hom and our journey back (incl. Le Mont-St-Michel!) will follow some other day. Hope you enjoyed!