Winterreisen: BRETAGNE mit Peter Fischer

In the organizer's words:

Traditional series of lectures in a Neustadt pub on travel experiences by cultural activists

Exploring Brittany with Peter Fischer

After at least 25 years, it was time again to travel to the place where I have experienced the friendliest French people.

Brittany, the largest French peninsula jutting out into the Atlantic, is steeped in tradition and has a wonderfully rugged coastline with countless small peninsulas, capes and cliffs!

On a half-round trip, starting in the north-east, just after Mont-Saint-Michel, we went along the Emerald Coast, the Côte de Granit Rose and the Côte des Legéndes, via Saint-Malo, Morlaix, Roscoff and on to Brest. Past bizarre, sculptural boulders, sandy beaches, through small villages with many friendly details. Again and again, hydrangea bushes, long hedges, small stores with regional products and local art, colorful and humorous decoration, lovingly maintained typical Breton granite houses.

And the churches, similar at first glance, but always unique at second glance. Each church is predominantly Gothic in its own way.

From the westernmost, rocky tip, the Pointe du Raz, my random route took me via Quimper, Pont Aven (Gauguin) to Lorient in the south-west, where the Festival Interceltique de Lorient was the musical highlight of my three-week journey through "Arvorig" - land by the sea (as the Gauls called it) - Celtic music, thousands of musicians, enthusiastic dancers.