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
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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
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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
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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
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The best news about driving in the Algarve arrives before you have even left the airport car park: as of January 2025 the region’s main motorway, the A22 Via do Infante, is completely toll free. That single change has quietly made driving in the Algarve easier and cheaper than it has been in over a
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If you are wondering whether driving in the Azores is easy, the short answer is yes, and this guide is here to put any nerves to rest. São Miguel, the largest and most visited island, has good main roads, almost no traffic, no toll roads at all and famously courteous local drivers, which makes driving
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The Nordeste scenic drive takes you to the wild, green far East of São Miguel, the oldest, least developed and most flower-filled corner of the island, where waterfalls tumble through fern valleys, manicured clifftop viewpoints hang over the Atlantic, and the roads are blissfully quiet. This is the part of the island most day-trippers rush
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The North Coast Sao Miguel scenic drive is the island’s gentlest great day out: a run along the rugged northern shore taking in Europe’s oldest tea plantations, a thermal waterfall in a jungle of ferns, clifftop viewpoints over the Atlantic, and the handsome old surf town of Ribeira Grande. Where Sete Cidades and Lagoa do
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The Lagoa do Fogo scenic drive takes you to the wild heart of São Miguel: a crater lake of turquoise and deep blue, ringed by 300-metre green walls, sitting alone in the centre of the island with no village, no cafe and no road around it, just the view. Rated the island’s top natural attraction,
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