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around Guerledan

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Following the excellent Carte Touristique produced by the Office de Tourisme du Lac de Guerledan ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ), we start at

ST-AIGNAN village, with a bar & shop, a bar tabac/ restaurant/ hotel/ butcher's shop(Les Pecheries), and a bar/ restaurant ouvrier (Bar Corboulo). The Tourist Information point is at the Electricity Museum along with a multimedia centre where workaholics could get their e-mail! There are several gites rural in the village and the hamlet of Le Corboulo as well as those on the outskirts of the Commune. A small campsite for Youth groups is near the tennis courts and a centre being developed for business training with high quality accommodation. A bridleway from the north end of the village leads through a stunning gorge to the foot of

the dam and the slightly humming, slightly foreboding 1930's architecture of the actual Hydro- Electric plant. Visits to this and the dam itself can be arranged for parties. Overlooking the gorge is the Chapel de Ste Trephine, itself built on the site of Castel Finans, the home of the bluebeard Conomor, her scheming husband.

Mur de Bretagne

Cyclists are well catered for along the north side of the Lake on the old railway track. While it actually went all the way from Rennes to Brest, a good place to start is at the old railway station in Mur-de-Bretagne. I once tried to carry a bicycle up a track to the east of the dam towards Mur but gave up!

There is a route however from below the dam to the Rond Point du Lac to the west of Mur where the Open Air activity centre helps organise water-sport and hill-walking based holidays and courses (www.base-plein-air-guerledan.com) There are tent and chalet camping sites. Below this is one of the less used of the five (man-made) beaches round the Lac, with a bar creperie at the top by the parking, a wc, and pedalo and canoe hire surrounded by trees and heather. The panoramic windows of the bar considerably extend the season for sitting and looking with wonder at the views, the top of the dam and the gorge below it.

Next comes Landroanec with a holiday village, relatively shallow bathing and the site of the free festival on the 15th August holiday with tri-athlon, evening and night Breton social dancing and a big firework display over the water at about 11pm.

The commune of Caurel is high above the Lake, on the old, by-passed trunk road with a beautiful stone-spired church, a long road downwards with a "pub" bar and a bar in what feels like a hunting lodge with grand panelling and mirrors, heading down to

Beau Rivage. This glamorous beach, with a variety of cafes and restaurants, wraps round a promontory into the lake, which is wide and deeply wooded on the far side. Water skiers whiz by at a safe distance from the bathers. There are three campsites here. On the way back up to the main road, we pass

Keriven, a hamlet largely preserved by its residents, with a summer market and a charming little festival.

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