Guern - 3miles away – Contains the local Bakery and a few bars. There is also a payphone here should you need it.
	Guemene- sur -Scorff – about 6 miles away- nearest small town with supermarket, home of the Andouille sausage.
	Pontivy – about 10 miles away – Chateau but not very interesting inside. Busy market town with all services, shops, outdoor markets, supermarkets, swimming pool.  Many restaurants, pizza’s, even a fabulous Chinese,  the Hotel Martin is usually good for seafood
	Pohl Fetan – a reconstructed, semi working, old Breton village about 10 to 15 miles southwest of the cottage (other side of Melrand)
	St Nicholas des Eaux – nice village on river Blavet with boat trips, mini golf and canoeing.  Also nice walk if you go onto the railway line (seldom used if at all) and through the tunnel then walk back alongside the river around the horseshoe bend to your start point. Gothic chapel nearby.
	Carnac  - Megaliths (smaller stones than Stonehenge but 100’s of them) -   Beaches, for best beach go west to La Jeunnesse where there are 3 nice coves with good safe sandy beaches and easy parking but they do get packed in the afternoon. -   Shops in old town and new town (100 different ice cream flavours in new town!) including some interesting curio shops. Carnac often has a different climate and if grey inland, the weather in Carnac can be sunny.
	Quiberon and peninsula – beaches on west coast tend to be windy and used for surfing/body boards.  Boat trips to Belle Isle. Only one road in and out so often busy.
	La Trinite sur Mer - pleasant little port for pleasure boats
	Golfe of Morbihan – beaches, boat trips, old villages and more megaliths
	Josselin – Chateau - very impressive from the river below and well worth a visit inside               - Nice old town and church
	Auray –old town with interesting old port – St Goustan area
	Vannes – old walled city (parts remaining including medieval wash houses), boat trips, shopping, Butterfly garden, Aquarium
	Canal de Nantes a Brest – never far away and many walks alongside
	Chateau de Branfere with zoo – southeast of Vannes
	Chateau du Crevy with Breton costume display – south of Ploermel
	Chateau de Suscinio now a museum in the marshes - south of Vannes
	Rochefort en Terre – very pretty village with an interesting Chateau (not fortified – more a manor house) - nearby a prehistoric park, war museum and a motor museum        North east of the cottage is the Chateau de Querledan (never visited ), Bon Repos , a pretty  little village and Abbey and Le Lac de Guerladan   - a man made lake popular for boating and water skiing (valley was dammed so lake stretches for about 7.5  miles) with small but usually crowded  beach .  Pedalo’s or motor boats for hire and mini golf
	Port Louis – fortified fishing port with beaches
	St Anne d'Auray - religious centre, basilica and breton costume museum
	Pont Aven – old riverside town famous for paintings by Gauguin
	Concarneau – medieval walled town/port   Further a field
	Dinan – interesting old town
	Mont Saint Michel – well worth a visit but likely to be packed
	Chateau de Fougeres and Combourg – both impressive and not far from Mont St Michel
	Vitre – old town/chateau
	Quimper – interesting old town La Baule – major seaside resort   We try to keep the cottage well stocked with brochures on interesting events or tourist information.