This is a continuation of Day 1 of 3 gray and wonderful days on Belle-île-en-Mer, Brittany. Our second day in Belle-île-en-Mer started with a change of hotels. The owner of the Hotel Clos Fleuri wasn’t any easier to deal with in the morning, so we quickly booked the hotel we considered when we first planned […]

I never thought I could associate rainy skies and beautiful vistas, but Belle-ile-en-Mer, an island just 8 kilometers off the Brittany Coast of France is where you can. I call Brittany the ‘Ireland of France’ for its weather and coastline. Belle-île is located northwest of the city of Saint-Nazaire and to the southeast of Lorient. […]