Introduction

31 years of a pub/bar in Brittany gone up in smoke opening the door to a photographic expedition of Brittany. Here we have mementoes of a socio-cultural icon, plus a taste of my life pre-Brittany, the continuation of a bridge between BreizhBrittany & Cymru/Wales, a Brythonic link, with Kernow/Cornwall in the middle that goes back continuously for more than 1600 years. The pub/bar is rising out of the ashes, but in the meantime I have opportunities to go out visiting, observing and capturing pieces of Breton heritage. You can see here in diaporama/slideshow form: religious establishments, mainly chapels, interesting because they encompass both history & art; waterways & bridges, mainly rivers, but also streams and a long arterial canal built by Napoleon Boneparte with its ingenious linking of the rivers with each in succession handing on the baton in, running all the way from Nantes to Brest; each chapel had its holy well some of which are marvels to behold, some have disappeared and others need half a day to be discovered hidden among the weeds and thorns; the many megalithic standing stones in their different forms; wells that are only now being blocked up; each hamlet had its communal bread-oven and communal pool for the washing of clothes, only the ovens are on their way back; last and definitely not least, the calvaires, some most intricately sculpted, that proliferate throughout the land. If you would like more information contact me by e-mail: bynwalters@libertysurf.fr/

Byn's Highways & Byways, Breizh/Llydaw/Bretagne/Brittany

Byn's Highways & Byways, Breizh (2)

Byn's Highways & Byways, Breizh (3)

Byn's Highways & Byways, Breizh (4)

Byn's Highways & Byways, Breizh (5)

Byn's Highways & Byways, Breizh (6)

Byn's Highways & Byways, Breizh (7)

Byn's Highways & Byways, Breizh (8)

Byn's Highways & Byways, Breizh (9)

Byn's Highways & Byways, Breizh (10)

Byn's Highways & Byways (11) Breizh

Byn's Highways & Byways, Cymru/Bro Gembre/Wales

Byn's Highways & Byways, The Algarve, Portugal

Tavarn Ty Elise

Tavarn Ty Elise 2

Tavarn Ty Elise 3

Pub Mementos

Jean-Claude Dreyfus, & Merzhin au bar Ty Elise

Music & Dance

Music & Dance (2)

Plouie/Plouye

An Uhelgoad/Le Huelgoat

Berrien

Brest

Briec

Cleguerec

Dinan

Daoulas

Le Faouet

Felger/Foujerr/Fougeres

Ar Folgoad/Le Folgoet

Glomel

Gouarec

Gwerliskin/Guerlesquin

Gwitreg/Vitré

Josilin/Josselin

Karaez (Ker-Ahes)/Carhaix-Plouguer

Kastellin/Chateaulin

Kemper/Quimper

Kemperle/Quimperle

Landelo/Landeleau

Landerne(au

Langoelan

Lanrivain

Locmaria-Berrien

Locronan

Loqueffret

Malguenac

Montroulez/Morlaix et ses environs

An Oriant/Lorient

Pempont (B)/Penpont (G)/Paimpont (F)

Pleiben/Pleyben

Plestin les Greves

Plonevez ar/du Faou

Plougrescant

Plouigneau

Plounevezel

Pondi/Pontivy

Rostrenn/Rostrenen

Saint Méen le Grand

Distinctive Buildings (secular)

Distinctive Buildings (secular 2)

Fontaines Sacrées/Holy Wells, Oratoires & Natural Springs/Sources

Rivers, Streams & Canals

Megalithic

Calvaires

Statues, Statuettes, Sculptures, Carvings & Figurines

Stained Glass

Religious Buildings and artefacts (exterior)

Religious (Exterior) 2

Religious Buildings & Artefacts (exterior) 3

Chapels, Churches, etc. (Interior)

Natural ( & cultivated) History

Natural (& cultivated) History (2)

Paysage/Landscape/Skyline

Weirs, Locks, Bridges & Tunnels

Wells

Amazon

Wednesday 28 November 2012

Cymru/Wales v Australia

With Abertawe/Swansea finding success in the top half of the 'Premier League', Caerdydd/Cardiff top of their division, and Casnewyd/Newport & Wrecsam/Wrexham likewise in the 'Conference', not forgetting Gareth Bale superstar, it is more important than ever that Cymru/Wales beat Australia this week-end or we could see rugby trimming back to its core support with a possibility that our present under 11s growing up with soccer success might in the future be filling (from a rugby point of view) the wrong coffers in the wrong stadia, not to mention playing the wrong game. Although with all the money that there is in soccer with all the competition it engenders and the lack of it in Wales, the rugby authorities had better hope that 2012/13 is a one off ski lift to the slope with the quick descent it entails. It looks as though their are going for the type of risky play that got them the points against New Zealand after the game was sewn up in order to upset the Australian psyche & game plan, dangerous tactics, especially the way that kicking for touch went disastrously wrong when we could have gone for the points and had a different game. Back to this week-end, valiant effort, pushing for the line with seconds to go but eventually losing by one point, or more realistically 27 - 33

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