Sunday, 19 August

The light (when there is light in Brittany) is silvery, whereas in Provence it’s golden. This is the land that inspired the legends of King Arthur, and there is certainly an ephemeral Arthurian atmosphere in this silver-and-green land.
The Morbihan gulf, where I am now, has the greatest concentration of strange megalithic structures left us by our Celtic ancestors. The district around the village of Carnac alone contains more than 3,000 prehistoric stone monuments. These include long avenues of menhirs (single standing stones), tumuli (tombs) and dolmens (multi-stone arrangements supporting horizontal slabs), Hewn from local granite, they were erected at different periods from early to late Neolithic (c. 4000-1500 B.C.). Now nature and time have covered them with white lichen. There are a tumulus and a menhir a short walk down the road from my campground.