Wednesday 13 February 2008

Breizh


...de la Cornell Daily Sun:

Just like the rest of France, Rennes and Brittany have a magical atmosphere, especially emanating from the majesty of the region’s architecture. Once I checked into my hotel room, I even took a picture of the beautiful canary yellow mansion across the way that looked like a Martha Stewart property of some sort. Later I found out that the building housed one of France’s largest women’s correctional facilities, so it was still a type of Martha Stewart facility, just more the rug-poncho type — with a French sense of style...

...The further you travel into the countryside in western Brittany, you will find that street signs will have both French and another, very distinctive language called Breton (in English), Bretagne (on French) or Breizh. Brittany was one of the six celtic regions of Europe — the other five being Cornwall, Wales, Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Mann. This language is closest to Cornish historically, but really it is one of the few left from that family that people still actually speak...

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