brittany – My Dad's Photos

France 1984

01/01/201508/04/2015 By shendyNo Comments

For the 1984 summer holiday, we spent a week in Carnac in Brittany and then ventured a bit further south well, we drove down to the Vendee and St Jean de Monts. A lovely place as I recall, with a vast sandy beach being reached through a pine wood. As for Carnac, you can probably imagine how interested a 16 year old boy was in standing stones. It took a long time for me to be able to utter the word "Carnac" without the word "sodding" in front of it. ...

France 1982

29/12/201408/04/2015 By shendyNo Comments

A few pics from the family holiday in August 1982 - a Eurocamp trip to Benodet and Telgruc in Brittany. Telgruc was most memorable for being on the side of quite a steep hill, with the "facilities" at the bottom. A night-time trip to the loo was swiftly christened "the long walk". It features an early example of my father's Fat Frenchman collection, by way of contrast to the numerous bikini-clad young ladies that my father took photos of......

Frenchman at the beach

04/11/201208/04/2015 By shendyNo Comments

I thought this one deserved its own post!...

France 1980

04/11/201208/04/2015 By shendyNo Comments

1980 was a radical new departure for us - not just abroad, but camping. Well, purists probably wouldn't count it as proper camping as we went with Eurocamp, so the tent was already there, 3 "bedrooms", that sort of thing. But back in 1980 the lighting was just a gas lamp and the fridge was just a coolbox that you kept topped up with blocks of ice you bought from reception. Electric light and a fridge didn't come along for a couple of years. This was at Benodet in Brittany - Camping de la Pointe St Gilles, which Eurocamp still use. The takeaway there was fantastic - we quickly realised that how much you got was determined by the size of the container you took along, not what you asked for, so it was quite cheap to pick up "2 frites" in a bloody big bowl that would feed all four of us......