Hi this is Chris from Amateur Traveler and this is going to be an encore episode of an episode we did two years ago

713 travel to Brittany and France. It's an episode I think you alike. I am traveling this week and therefore no new episode this

week but I'll be back next week. I'm heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good in my passport photo

Amateur Traveler episode 713 today the amateur traveler talks about walled towns and standing stones, beaches and

folk festivals, pirates and U-boats as we go to Brittany in France.

Welcome to the amateur traveler.

I'm your host Chris Christensen.

Let's talk about Brittany. I'd like to welcome

the show Kristen Montgomery from Growing Global Citizens.com who has come to talk to us about the region of France known

as Brittany. Kristen welcome to the show. Thanks Chris and I want to say the duchy of Brittany, but that's really not the term anymore.

So, no, it's definitely part of France officially.

Where are we talking about?

So Brittany is located in northwestern France and as you said it used to be a

duchy but in the 1500s it was incorporated as part of France basically

taken over against their will. So there's still a very strong

regional identity. There are some people that still identify as being

Breton before they're French. Excellent.

And why should someone go to Brittany?

Well, Brittany is a place that is not usually on lots of travelers' lists.

Obviously, if you're going to head to France, you think of Paris, you think of Southern France,

Provence or Nice, but there are a lot of really great things to see in Britannia and Brittany.

There are beautiful beaches, first of all all and it's actually sand beaches unlike the rocky beaches that you find down south.

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