Crisscrossing this part of France is like plucking petals from a bouquet with deep historical and genealogical roots. Setting out from Roscoff, a small port town in western Brittany, you will head east, with the wind at your back, through sea-sprayed villages, forests of oak and mistletoe, lovely seaside resorts and pink-granite cliffs—all topped off by magnificent St. Michael’s Mount and St. Malo, the ultimate walled port city. Next, head for neighbouring Normandy, with its slate-roofed houses and seafood-laden tables, impressive Château de Caen and irresistible Honfleur, the archetypal attractive seaside port town.
From day to day
Short route : 580 km • Long route : 703 km
Day 1 - Arrival in Nantes, bus transfer to Roscoff.
Day 2 - Roscoff, Morlaix, Lanmeur, Plestin-les-Grèves, Lannion (74 km).
Day 3 - Free day or looped route via Ploumanach, Trégastel-Plage, Trébeurden (51 km).
Day 4 - Lannion, Port-Blanc, Tréguier, Paimpol, Lanleff, Saint-Gilles-les-Bois, Guingamp (80 km).
Day 5 - Guingamp, Plouégat, Châtelaudren, La Corderie, Saint-Brieuc, Morieux, Le Val-André (83 km).
Day 6 - Le Val-André, Erquy, Sables-d’Or-les-Pins, Plévenon, Matignon, Ploubalay, Saint-Lunaire, Dinard. Boat trip from Dinard to Saint-Malo (66 km).
Day 7 - Free day or looped route around Saint-Malo. (42 km)
Day 8 - Saint-Malo, Saint-Méloir-des-Ondes, Le Vivier-sur-Mer, Saint-Broladre, Narbonne, Beauvoir, Mont-Saint-Michel (51 km).
Day 9 - Mont-Saint-Michel, Avranches, Planches, Saint-Martin de Cenilly, Saint-Lô (86 km).
Day 10 - Saint-Lô, La Luzerne, Cerisy-la-Forêt, Le Molay-Littry, Les Ruisseaux, Bayeux, Coulombs, Caen (73 km).
Day 11 - Free day or looped route via Biéville-Beuville, Hermanville sur Mer (44 km).
Day 12 - Caen, Colombelles, Breuville-les-Monts, Cabourg, Tourville, Honfleur (76 km).
Day 13 - Free day or looped route via Bonneville-sur-Touques. (34km)
Day 14 - Honfleur, Rivière-St-Sauveur, Routot, Sahurs, Rouen. (81km)
Day 15 - Trip to Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport and return trip to Montreal.
Itinerary subject to change.