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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Travel
Ben Lerwill

Megaliths and hoopoes: chance encounters in untamed Brittany

A small chapel on Île de Boëdic, one of many idyllic tiny islands in the Gulf of Morbihan.
Bay of plenty … the Gulf of Morbihan contains about 40 islands, depending on the tides. Pictured is tiny Île de Boëdic. Photograph: chromoprisme/Alamy

I’m in a dark corridor with four strangers. The ceiling is low, as is the temperature, and the granite walls are covered in engravings: overlapping patterns of wavy lines and psychedelic swirls, like giant notepad doodles etched in stone. We stumble slowly along the passage, peering at the carvings by torchlight. It feels a bit like being in an art gallery during a power cut – except here, the gallery in question is a 6,000-year-old burial chamber on an uninhabited island.

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