Camping Ker Vella

After pootling or watersporting around the Breton coast, have a drive of 10 minutes or so to the Armorica Regional Natural Park, for piles of old sites as well as many museums, traditional villages and historical centres. Highlights include the villages of Argol, with its museum dedicated to historic methods of flax and wool production; Landévennec, with its Benedictine abbey and maritime museum; and Le Faou, a tiny fishing village with its 16th-century Church of Saint-Sauveur. The city of Brest, with its huge Pont de Recouvrance drawbridge, medieval Tanguy tower, Océanopolis aquarium and botanical gardens is less than an hour’s drive from base. For fishing, the 4,500 kilometres of waterways and lakes and 1,200 kilometres of coastline that fringe the Finistère department provide plenty of excellent angling – you can fish in the sea from the nearby beach, or if you’re more of a freshwater fisher the lakes of Saint-Michel and Drennec are both within an hour’s drive.