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| Locronan |
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| Locronan church |
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| Locronan church |
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| Locronan church |
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| Beach near Guidel |
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| Field near Pont-Scorff |
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| Standing Stones row Carnac, 4 km long |
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| La Trinité-sur-Mer, not even half of it |
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| Pont-Aven Museum, Paul Serusier"Le Talisman" |
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| Pont-Aven Museum, Bonnard "Regatta" |
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| Festival Saumon, Pont-Scorff |
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| Kayaking on the river Scorff |
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| Latin night Pont-Scorff, during Festival Saumon |
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| Pont-Scorff during World Cup match |
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| Pont-Scorff house |
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| Pont-Scorff house |
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| Pont- Scorff house |
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| Pont-Scorff |
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| Cycle way to Pont-Scorff |
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| Outside Pont-Scorff |
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| Pont-Scorff Sculpture group by Pierre de Grauw |
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| Evening meal with friends in Pont-Scorff |
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| Swimming pool |
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| Henri Moore exhibition, Héléne & Édouard Leclerc Fondation in Landerneau |
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Henri Moore exhibition, Héléne & Édouard Leclerc Fondation in Landerneau
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Henri Moore exhibition, Héléne & Édouard Leclerc Fondation in Landerneau
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Henri Moore exhibition, Héléne & Édouard Leclerc Fondation in Landerneau
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Henri Moore exhibition, Héléne & Édouard Leclerc Fondation in Landerneau
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Henri Moore exhibition, Héléne & Édouard Leclerc Fondation in Landerneau
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| Luis |
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Henri Moore sculpture in Landerneau
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| Luis learning French language |
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Henri Moore exhibition, Héléne & Édouard Leclerc Fondation in Landerneau
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In July we went again to Pont-Scorff, the town in Brittany that is twinned to Waterville in Kerry. This time we had the two grand sons with us. Pont-Scorff is the town that holds the "Festival Saumon" every July and this time it was the 24th time. The festival is a mix of concerts, cultural activities and marine biology demonstrations for the whole family. All events and concerts are free of charge. Three days of summer fun, ending with one of the best fire work displays I have ever witnessed.
Very enjoyable and great to see how a community works together. All the work was done by volunteers. The festival had about 20000 visitors over the three days.
Another morning a friend took us to Lorient, where Stage 5 of the Tour de France started. We had the pleasure to meet our only Irish cyclist in the race, Dan Martin, who received the title of "most competitive rider" and number 8 in the GC.
Apart from the nice landscape and interesting heritage we saw two beautiful art exhibition. Pont Aven has a very good museum that showed an exhibition called :
Le Talisman, a prophecy of colour.
Here is a part of the introduction text from the museum:
"In 1888, Paul Gauguin gives painting lessons to Paul Sérusier, who paints a co-lourful and nearly abstract representation of the Bois d’Amour in Pont-Aven. Back to Paris, Sérusier presents his work to the future “Nabi” artists (nabi mea-ning “prophet” in Hebrew). The painting becomes the group’s “Talisman” and their manifesto, as this group advocates, in Gauguin’s wake, liberation from reality and the use of pure colours." You can find more information about the exhibition
here
The second art exhibition we saw showed the work of the mighty Henri Moore in the wonderful Fonds Héléne&Èdouard Leclerc in Landerneau. It was such a great joy to see so many important pieces by the artist in one place outside a museum or collection in England. We spend several hours there. A large catalogue is available. The exhibition runs until November 4, 2018.
I can not give you a whole account of the great food, the state of the cycle ways, the nice evenings with friends but I hope the photos will give you some idea what we had experienced.
All photos were taken with iphone 4s.
©Michael Herrmann 2018
