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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Travel
Stephen Burgen

Wild west: a walk on Brittany’s rugged Crozon peninsula

A couple on the GR34 coastal path on the Crozon peninsula.
A serene coastal stroll … the GR34 coastal path on the Crozon peninsula. Photograph: Joel Douillet/Alamy

They say walking is the best medicine and you could spend months walking off your troubles along the sentier des douaniers (customs officers’ path), which winds for more than 1,240 miles (2,000km) around the bays and headlands of the Breton coast. However, me and my perennial walking companion, an Irishman who lives in Bath, settled for a five-day, 55-mile stretch along the southern Crozon peninsula.

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