Erquy

So, this weekend, I went to the beach with my host family at Erquy, a small town of 3,000 people on the north side of Brittany.  In the summer, my host mom said it was around 30,000 people.  Now, they have a house there, but not just that.  They also own a blockhouse that was put there during WW2 by the Germans to guard the coast.  Also, they have this underground cave-like room that the Germans kept their wine in.  I don't know if there were any bottle from that time left, but I did see some pretty old looking bottles.  Her parents had owned the property before them, but they bought it from them because of their age.  So, yeah.  Pretty sweet.  Here are some pictures.

You can't really see the town in these pictures, but it gives you an idea of what the coast looks like.  Now, both of these pictures were taken at low tide. But as you can see on the second picture, there isn't really that line of sea-trash that you see on the beaches in the US.  You know, it's blackish, made up of seaweed and sticks.  Well, that's because when the tide comes in, the beach disappears almost completely.  I have no idea why this is so, but the difference in height between low tide and high tide is about 10m or 30ft.  So, in the first picture, you can see where the black stops on the rocks, that's where the tide is when it comes in. It's quite amazing.  The beach is like 10 yards long when the tide is in, and when it's out, it's probably a ten minute walk at least to get to the water.  There were boats about 100 yards from the water completely beached.  Super weird.  So, cool story of the week.