Highlights Autumn 2015
Welcome to High Point Holidays Autumn newsletter. As usual at this time of year, we are planning for 2016 and this period gives you the opportunity to book on our Early Bird Offer: any self guided walking holiday booked before end of October is guaranteed at 2015 prices. This month we focus on the Emerald Coast of Brittany and share with you our latest competition and blog.
Don't forget that on our walking holidays, booking early always secures our 1st choice accommodation.
Best Wishes
Mark Armstrong |
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Brittany's Emerald Coast:
Brittany's Emerald Coast takes its name from the colour of the sea under certain conditions - an idea inspired by the success of the name 'Cote d'Azur' in promoting tourism in Mediterranean France.
The Emerald coast has some of Brittany’s most impressive coastline, with rocky headlands jutting into the sea, backed by a landscape of gorse and heather, with numerous small beaches and villages, and several fascinating historical towns.
Our 5-day self-guided walking holiday selects the best sections of this part of Brittany's coastline and can be shortened or lengthened to tailor it to your wishes. Each day’s walk changes character from the opulent villas of Dinard and the fabulous historic walled town of St Malo to the wild heathland and stunning 70m cliffs of the Frehel Peninsula.
Your walking trail follows a beautiful path known as Chemin des Douaniers (Customs’ trail) which for almost all of its length hugs the Brittany coastline passing through a number of pretty sea-side resorts such Saint-Briac, Saint Lunaire, and Erquy. Inbetween you’ll discover sheltered beaches, tiny fishing ports, wild and scenic headlands as well as dramatic wooded coastlines which have a 'lost world' feel to them.
Brittany's Emerald Coast Self Guided Walking Holiday - £665 pp
- 6 nights’ accommodation in several charming small guest houses and hotels
- All breakfasts, 3 lunches and 4 evening meals included.
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Competitions
Competitions: We have a wonderful anthology of poetry celebrating the British coastline and life above and below the deep blue sea to give away in our latest competition. Ode to the Sea has verses from our best-loved authors - such as WB Yeats, Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling - which are accompanied by beautiful illustrations of idyllic days at sea, haunted shipwrecks and tempestuous storms.
Sea shanties and siren's songs sit alongside the classic song from The Tempest and Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' in this beautiful anthology of the mystical world beneath the waves.
Competition is open until 31st October 2015
Visit our competition page for further details
Coastal Walking Holidays
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More on Brittany
- Brittany is the largest French peninsula.
- Coastal areas are usually named Armor or Arvor ("by the sea" in Breton), and the inland is called Argoat ("by the forest").
- Brittany has a changeable, maritime climate, similar to Cornwall.
- Like Cornwall, Wales and Ireland, the waters of Brittany attract marine animals including basking sharks, grey seals, turtles and dolphins.
- The Breton language is still widely spoken and its origin is closer to the celtic languages of their Cornish, Welsh and Irish cousins.
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A Walk in the Woods
Why not take a walk in the woods this weekend. In his book The Worm Forgives the Plough, John Stewart Collis describes the different moods that can be felt in a wood. "Sometimes I have felt my heart contract at the sudden coming on of a cold darkness, and expand at the smiling beams swiftly pervading the weary, dripping scene around."
A walk in the woods can be a great opportunity to observe the effect of the seasonal changes in nature. From March to May the 'sleeping trees' awake and at their feet the flowers emerge to the bird songs of spring. Plus there's the tactile nature of the autumn walk through a leaf strewn forest floor or the spectacular colours of the autumn leaves before they flutter to the floor in an aerial dance.
As Henry David Thoreau wrote: "I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees " Read More |
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