Chapter 4 Brittany Château de Suscinio

We woke up to a breakfast already prepared by Yolande with fresh croissants, French bread, jams, a delicious light yogurt and grapes from her vines. She made us breakfast everyday. What a paradise!
We strolled a beach near Yolande’s, in Penvins where there was a small picturesque Chapel ‘Notre-Dame-de-la-Côte’ sitting out on a point of land surrounded by ocean. The beach also afforded us a view of the castle we where going to visit next. The 'Château de Suscinio' is a French castle, built at the beginning of the 13th century as a residence for the Dukes of Brittany. It was first designed to be a place of leisure between the seaside and a forest full of game for hunting. During the 14th & 15th centuries it was fortified for the 100-year war between England and France. The castle’s restoration was well done with explanations for each room describing its purpose and décor. Some rooms had slide shows projected on the walls which further described them. We tried to go to lunch at 1:30pm; all two restaurants in town were closed as well as all the

ones on the way back to Yolande’s, where we finally had lunch at 3:00P. Yolande told us that most stores in France close, especially in the country between 1:00p and 3:00p returning to work until 7:00p (yuk!). When we were finished with lunch, Jim and I returned to the castle and took way to many photos. While we were on our 2nd tour of the castle, Yolande was home preparing a dinner for us with French bread, an assortment of cheeses and pâtés (duck, pork, chicken), prosciutto, pickles called cornichons (a great condiment) and, of course French wine; it was marvelous.