A CLOTHESLINE

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No, this is not a conceptual art project, but a very real clothesline strung up in a nook and cranny on French Brittany's Pink Granite Coast in Ploumanac'h.

Just one snapshot of the many dramatic formations along the Côte de Granit Rose lying between Trébeurden and Perros-Guirec. There are only three such coast lines in the world, the other two are in Corsica and in China.

Vocabulary
une corde à linge:  a clothesline
une pince à linge:  a clothespin
un recoin:  a nook
une fissure:  a cranny

©2016 P.B. Lecron

GOOD DAY, SUNSHINE

View of a small schooner on a fine day off the Pink Granite Coast near Ploumanach in French Brittany. Because the coast is famous for weather where there are all four seasons in one day, the Bretons have a proverb that says: "Attendez la nuit pour dire que le jour a été beau." Wait until night to say that the day was beautiful.

Vocabulary

une goélette:  a schooner

©2014 P.B. Lecron

IN THE PINK

View from the Côte de Granit Rose, along the Sentier de Douaniers, a former coastguard footpath that runs along the coasts of Brittany. The Côte de Granit Rose, a stretch of striking seascapes in northern Brittany, is one of only three pink granite coastlines in the world, the other two are in Corsica and China.  

Vocabulary
un sentier:  a path
un douanier:  a customs officer



Photo courtesy of Marianne Lecron