I have been in Brittany the first time in February 2003, when in high school we made an exchange with a French class. The chosen city was Brest, in the Finistère region (which takes its name from Finis Terrae, the end of the earth) but we had traveled around the area and the hinterland enough and this was enough to fall in love with those wonderful landscapes and the Bretons, a people so allegro and ready to party as much stubborn and allergic to impositions and rules.
I then returned to Brittany a few years later, in the summer, for a trip to two weeks in the car. Brittany is particularly suitable for getting around by car, because the road network optimally connects the various points of interest in the region and, in addition, is completely free thanks to the stubbornness of the Breton citizens who never accepted the imposition of road tolls by the central government of Paris.
Brittany is the home of lighthouses, cliffs, gods Menhir and Dolmen(the large prehistoric stones lined up in fields scattered around the region): these are particularly fascinating lands, full of history, of legends and breathtaking landscapes. It is ideal to go around freely by stopping in the different locations.
I chose the bed and breakfast as a solution: in Bratagna they are numerous and allow you to spend little, often with one very high quality. In addition, by staying at home, you have the opportunity to meet local people and to explore areas otherwise little known (almost all the b & bs where I slept were in the countryside). Before leaving I had some selected some from the internet, booking via email and I must say that I have never been disappointed.
I particularly recommend the Relais Ty Er Berre, a country house run by a couple of very nice gentlemen, in a village of Morbihan lost in the countryside. Breakfast like a king. There is also a very impressive Breton cemetery nearby. Another bed and breakfast that I would recommend is the Les Colombages in Morlaix. It is not particularly low cost (in any case, always cheaper than a hotel) but it is so suggestive and romantic that it is worth even just passing by.
As for food, I have no doubt: Brittany is there home of crepes, which are not as soft as in the rest of France, but rather crunchy, like a light waffle. A very good and above all cheap dish. Brittany is full of creperies at all corners but I recommend two in particular: the Creperie Au coin quiet in Quistinic and the Creperie Ar Bilig in Morlaix (Rue au Fil, 6). Stupendous. A little less easy to find something accessible in the (actually formerly Normandy) area of Mont Saint Michel - Saint Malo: too touristy and exploited.
Brittany is also culturally one low cost region: anyone who wants to shoot it, from Finistère to Morbihan at Cotes-d'Armor he can be sure of casually bumping into one of the many by himself megalithic sites (in Carnac there is one of the largest alignments of Menhirs in the world), in one of the famous abbeys or in the suggestive enclos, the granite churches composed of an ossuary and an ordeal: very macabre.
For those wishing to avoid deepening the Breton cult, i landscape, cliffs and fari along the coast they are certainly no less fascinating. A defect of Brittany? The climate: cold, windy and rainy in winter; warmer in summer but certainly no less variable.
Bring theumbrella and forget about swimming in the sea (unless you are brave). Perhaps also for the climate, the Bretons are great drinkers and the evenings in pubs and in osterie they are always very animated: if you want to party you will certainly not miss the opportunity.
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