Scenic Drives

The Carnac scenic drive takes you into the deep past of Brittany and out to one of its wildest coasts. Carnac is home to the greatest concentration of standing stones anywhere on Earth, more than 3,000 menhirs raised in long, mysterious rows some 7,000 years ago, older than Stonehenge and the pyramids of Egypt. Around

The Gulf of Morbihan scenic drive is Southern Brittany at its gentlest and most beguiling. Mor Bihan means the little sea in Breton, and that is exactly what this is: a near-enclosed inland sea some 20 kilometres across, dotted with dozens of islands and ringed by oyster beds, medieval towns, prehistoric megaliths and a soft,

The Pointe du Raz scenic drive takes you to the very edge of France. Out at the Western tip of the Cap Sizun, where Brittany runs out of land, a great rocky prow rears 72 metres above the sea and the Atlantic hurls itself against the reefs of the Raz de Sein below. This is

The Crozon Peninsula scenic drive is Brittany at its wildest. Shaped like a rough cross thrust out into the Atlantic between Brest and Douarnenez, the Presqu’île de Crozon is a land of towering cliffs, offshore rock stacks, hidden coves and heather-covered headlands, nearly all of it protected within the Armorique Regional Nature Park. It is

The Pink Granite Coast scenic drive is one of the strangest and most beautiful stretches of road in Brittany, and quite possibly in France. For about 16 miles along the North coast of the Côtes d’Armor, the granite turns a warm rose pink, weathered by 300 million years of wind and sea into boulders the

The Emerald Coast scenic drive is the finest day behind the wheel in Northern Brittany, and it earns its name the moment the sea comes into view. Somewhere between Cancale and Cap Frehel the water turns a shade of green you will not quite believe, shifting from jade to turquoise as the tide runs, and