Film Review 80th Anniversary Announcement We use cookies to provide you with a great experience and to help our website run effectively None too close to the outside.\u201D - The Aviator (2004) Romy Schneider is put under the spotlight in a dramatic reconstruction We have here a film which for half of its length is impressive but which by its close has been undermined by doubts that eventually come to the surface Its subject is an actual interview that took place in 1981 when a journalist from Stern magazine came to Quiberon in Brittany where the actress Romy Schneider (Marie Bäumer) had agreed to meet them.  A life-long friend of Schneider was visiting her at the time and quickly took the view that Jürgs was manipulative and seeking to hone in on Schneider’s troubled private life she had separated from her second husband and was aware that her son from her first marriage had become distant from her.3 Days in Quiberon was written and directed by a female filmmaker it has an intimate feel encouraged perhaps by the decision to film it in black and white with a strong resemblance to Romy Schneider acts the role admirably and Minichmayr is equally good as Hilde – Atef brings out their close bond most persuasively while the interview scenes achieve their own impact An early reference to insensitive journalists intent on getting a good story describes their methods as akin to verbal rape and we are impliedly invited to see this particular interview as an example of it Hilde becomes critical of her friend’s willingness to submit to it an attitude on Schneider’s part born quite possibly of a sense of guilt that drives her to expose the fact that she is an unhappy woman despite being the most popular European film actress of the era.So far But the fact is that 3 Days in Quiberon lasts for almost two hours and It meanders on without being altogether persuasive when it unexpectedly attempts to paint the journalists in a different light (the film’s credits indicate that inspiration came from conversations with Jürgs and Lebeck) we have more and more time to ponder to what extent this portrait of Schneider is itself playing up her sufferings in a way somewhat comparable to that of intrusive journalists In this respect it is not irrelevant to mention that Schneider’s daughter has taken the film to task for suggesting that her mother was an alcoholic and Atef appears to have acknowledged in a general way that her film has made play with some of the realities of the situation (that of course is quite common in films based on actual events) It seems odd too that the film adds a coda set in Paris a week later and seeks to end on an upbeat note That is strange because the kind of written statement usually found at the end of a movie based on real life has appeared up front here and it has informed us of the tragic accidental death of Romy Schneider’s son and her own subsequent death in 1982 which is described as ‘unresolved’ but perhaps ultimately even more to query.MANSEL STIMPSONCast: Marie Bäumer Dir Emily Atef, Pro Karsten Stöter, Screenplay Emily Atef based on an idea by Denis Poncet, Ph Thomas W Kiennast, Pro Des Silke Fischer, Ed Hansgörg Weissbrich, Music Christoph M.Kaiser and Julian Maas, Costumes Janina Audick Rohfilm Factory/Dor Film/Sophie Dulac Productions/Tita B Productions/Departures Film/ARTE-Modern Films.116 mins FilmReviewDaily@gmail.com © 2015 - 2025 FILM REVIEW. 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Privacy Notice Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb Violent storms this weekend caused serious damage in France as well as the death of at least one swimmer in the Mediterranean.  Read more: Sea swimmer drowns as violent storms hit southern France  the storms also provided a view of a rare phenomena in the form of a sea tornado or waterspout (trombe marine).  These are formed during unstable weather conditions (usually storms) when wind patterns abruptly shift over a body of water The spout that formed on Saturday (September 7) appeared around 16:40 near Quiberon (Morbihan) It moved along the coastline for several kilometres A nearby triathlon event had finished just before the waterspout formed Social media posts of the sea waterspout can be seen below.  Belle trombe marine visible vers 16h40 au sud-est de Quiberon juste avant l’arrivée d’une forte averse sur la presqu’île #Morbihan pic.twitter.com/lhis2oBvq0 Mesdames et messieurs, une trombe marine s’est abattue à #Quiberon 💨 pic.twitter.com/RUSoM95i8v Trombe Marine à Quiberon il y a quelques minutes.Crédit @SNSMQuiberon pic.twitter.com/UOIRrh7e2i a sea waterspout was seen in Brittany in 2022 after storms in the area.  Read more: Watch: Large ‘waterspout tornado’ off coast of Brittany The group compared two popular EV models and considered six specialist EV offers The prefectural ban is set to remain in place until at least December 31 The geographical spread of Canadian nationals follows a similar pattern to Americans doesn’t just look uncannily like the Austrian-born movie star She inhabits her in a way that makes you blink it into focus a perception flipping back and forth like an optical illusion like the goosebump shiver of a voice from beyond the grave So it takes longer than perhaps it should to acknowledge the quality of the rest of this handsome The year is 1981 and Schneider has checked into an exclusive health spa in the Breton seaside resort of Quiberon but for the 14-year-old son who is threatening to cut ties and live with his stepfamily The exhaustion of a lifetime of being Romy Schneider – hounded by the German press and dogged by scandal – has taken its toll she has agreed to an interview and photo shoot with the German magazine Stern Emily Atef’s film imagines the events of the three days in which Schneider pinballs erratically between joy and despair, exudes movie-star magnetism and deadbeat desperation. Orbiting her is the photographer Robert Lebeck (Charly Hübner) an old friend and former lover; Michael Jürgs (Robert Gwisdek) bullet-hole eyes; and her watchful childhood friend Hilde (Birgit Minichmayr) the self-appointed buffer between the press and the actress’s own worst instincts The film is shot in the kind of black and white that emphasises both beauty and desolation – a homage to the iconic photographs captured by Lebeck And the camera brilliantly mirrors Schneider’s mercurial moods In a scene in which Schneider orchestrates a breakout and finds a bar the tipsily gregarious lens reels around the room happiness is as ephemeral and insubstantial as a champagne bubble Watch the trailer for 3 Days in Quiberon.This is the archive of The Observer up until 21/04/2025 The Observer is now owned and operated by Tortoise Media By 2018-02-19T17:45:00+00:00 Dramatisation of actress Romy Schneider’s incendiary 1981 interview with Stern magazine Source: Rohrfilm Factory / Prokino / Peter Hartwig The actress Romy Schneider (Marie Bäumer) checked into an exclusive spa with the intention of quitting alcohol where despite her fragile state and having previously been burned by the German press she agreed to an interview and photo shoot with Stern magazine It would prove to be incendiary and it would be her last before her death carefully crafted drama explores the charged encounter between the actress the photographer and the childhood friend who tries to protect Romy from the prying questions and from herself Marie Bäumer is terrific; she brings to the role a skittish mercurial quality which teeters on the edge of panic Films which turn the lens onto the movie industry and its stars tend to be catnip to festival programmers and this persuasively-acted portrait of an actress on the brink is likely to be no exception exporing as it does similar territory to My Week With Marilyn Theatrical prospects should be healthiest where Schneider’s star burned brightest.  which won the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award in 2015 represents a step up in terms of ambition for writer/director Atef best known for Molly’s Way and The Stranger In Me the better to pay homage to the iconic photographs taken by Robert Lebeck (played here by Charly Hübner) to accompany the Stern interview But the monochrome imagery is as likely to highlight the bleakness – of the Breton coastline off-season of Romy’s fractured anguish – as it is to capture beauty The Romy we first encounter is in a pensive mood She confides in her recently arrived friend Hilde (Birgit Minichmayr) that her aim is to get sober and healthy; not for a film but for her fourteen-year-old son David who is threatening to move in with his step-family the pair giggle ruefully into their mineral water But Romy’s resolve is shaken with the arrival of Lebeck and the gimlet-eyed reporter Michael Jürgs (Robert Gwisdek) The initial encounter knocks her off balance – Jürgs’ technique as an interviewer doesn’t extend to treating his subjects with kid gloves the four of them find a bar by the port where Romy tucks into the champagne with a gusto which borders on desperation friable thing; the handheld camera grows increasingly uninhibited as the night wears on Jürgs comes prepared to the second interview session with two bottles of chilled wine foresight which is repaid by Romy’s admission that she is unhappy broke and tortured by feelings of inadequacy as a mother Bäumer is terrific; she brings to the role a skittish mercurial quality which teeters on the edge of panic Romy’s moods change like the Breton weather her giddy highs and clouds of fear almost coexisting Minichmayr spends much of the film in watchful silence but gets to share a bitingly enjoyable exchange with Jürgs as he attempts to nettle her over dinner – Atef’s perceptive writing gives both actors plenty to get their teeth into Gwisdek is a tricky delight as the unscrupulous journalist who instinctively seeks out Romy’s weakest points His small sigh of exasperation speaks volumes about the burden of guilt she has neatly placed on his shoulders International sales: Beta Cinema beta@betacinema.com EXCLUSIVE: Skoog’s previous works have screened at Berlinale PS1 MOMA New York and Moderna Museet Stockholm Baby’ is also the closing night film at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Lutz Rippe take over as co-CEOs of Studiocanal Germany Florence Pugh takes centre stage for this mighty tussle in a post-Avengers world Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong reunite to tell their own story Pleasingly complex murder mystery opened the Hong Kong International Film Festival Screen International is the essential resource for the international film industry access to the Screen International archive and supplements including Stars of Tomorrow and World of Locations Site powered by Webvision Cloud handcrafted by maryann johanson (human) | 100% free of AIs and algorithms My film education continues: I had never heard of Austrian actress Romy Schneider before 3 Days in Quiberon crossed my radar but now I know that she was one of the biggest European film stars of the mid 20th century with a long string of prominent roles that made her a household name and recognizable on the street in Germany and France and also subject to endless and often malicious gossip in the press German writer-director Emily Atef paints of portrait of tortured celebrity extrapolating from Schneider’s last interview in 1981 just a year before her apparently unexplained death at age only 43 As Schneider (a riveting Marie Bäumer: The Counterfeiters) is detoxing and trying to relax at a luxury spa hotel on the Brittany coast, with the support of her close friend, Hilde Fritsch (Birgit Minichmayr: Downfall) Stern magazine journalist Michael Jürgs (Robert Gwisdek) and photographer Robert Lebeck (Charly Hübner) arrive but she has invited them for what they hope will be an intimate conversation as Jürgs confides later to his editor over the phone the most open she’s ever been with a reporter Schneider’s freewheeling conversation with them — formal and frequently booze-fueled even though abstaining is meant to be part of her detox — is indeed rife with her anger over how her career has been defined by one iconic role; how she is constantly conflated with her characters; and how difficult it is for her balance her work which she feels guilty for neglecting for that work Ironically — and rather depressingly — approaching this film with no awareness of Schneider and her movies only serves to highlight how Schneider’s predicament is in many way that of all women who want to break free of the small boxes our culture tries to keep us confined to and how little that has changed in almost 40 years isn’t only melancholy: it also lends the film a timeless feel This could all almost be taking place today The wonderful actress of 60s movies (GOOD NEIGHBOR SAM) was a child in wartime Germany Romy can been seen romping at the Eagles Nest with the baddie all directed by Ernst Marischka – has become a true legend in Austria It could even be said that – unlike Germany – Austria to the point of dedicating to her one of the most important film/television awards of the country: the Goldene Romy Based on the famous photographs taken by Robert Lebeck – and thus reflecting the meticulous black and white – the camera faithfully follows Romy Schneider during her stay in a sanatorium in Quiberon she is to meet a journalist from Stern magazine and photographer Lebeck for an interview is more vulnerable than ever and the risk of her public image being ruined is dangerously high With the face of Marie Bäumer (The Counterfeiters) – who bears a remarkable resemblance to Schneider – we see a human protagonist whose Achilles heel is her difficult relationship with her children jokes and an extraordinary enthusiasm for life Atef’s Romy Schneider is a Romy in a transitional phase: long gone are the happy days when she was with the men she loved or at the beginning of her career when she was still just “Princess Sissi” (a label that she will struggle to shake off for a lifetime) but the hope for a better future is not yet dead And yet one must also acknowledge this: in showing these three important days in the protagonist’s life the dangerous rhetoric that refers to imminent events in her life such as the premature death of her son or her own death There’ s nothing to object to: history is history Schneider is represented here as an important member of the film history Privacy Policy(function (w,d) {var loader = function () {var s = d.createElement("script") tag = d.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; 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at others low-key and almost inconsequential The black-and-white cinematography gives it the look of a 70s picture by Wim Wenders Schneider is eerily impersonated by Marie Bäumer and Atef invents a fictional best friend for Schneider: Hilde (Birgit Minichmayr) whose job is to warn her about how manipulative and destructive the whole thing is Their confrontations are explosive but cathartic and Schneider is perhaps more in control of this journalistic encounter than anyone realises There are some interesting comments on her mother “Not everyone can claim that Hitler had a crush on their mother …” remarks Schneider drily Denis Levant contributes a rumbustious cameo as a wild-eyed poet whose bohemianism entrances Schneider one night in a restaurant the awful truth is that within a year of this event her beloved 14-year-old son was killed in an accident sending Schneider back into the spiral of depression and substance abuse that was to kill her This is what gives this “final interview” its awful tragic context and it makes the upbeat ending here seem weirdly obtuse it has a wonderful performance from Bäumer By 2018-05-11T05:20:00+01:00 the award-winning director of 3 Days In Quiberon Some Day We Will Tell Each Other Everything about the torrid romance between a 17 -year old woman and a 40-year-old man archaic love story set a year after the Berlin Wall came down,” said Atef It will be an adaptation of the best-selling German language novel of the same name by Daniela Krien It will be produced by Karsten Stöter of Rohfilm with whom she made the multi-Lola winning 3 Days In Quiberon Atef has two directorial projects to complete first She is writing and will direct a TV movie in the hugely popular Tatort (Scene Of The Crime) series in October She describes this as “a black comedy influenced by the world of the Coen brothers.” After the TV project Atef is planning to direct the French-Norwegian drama EXCLUSIVE: The modern love story is the second film by the rising German director Screen profiles all the films in the Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection and parallel sections A ‘special success incentive’ has also been created for filmmakers whose films are recognised artistically ‘Sinners’ increases weekend-on-weekend takings to pass £11m By 2018-02-20T15:52:00+00:00 Following their Berlinale Competition premieres Emily Atef’s 3 Days In Quiberon and Erik Poppe’s U – July 22 are the latest titles to register scores on Screen’s Berlin Jury Grid Reviewed here 3 Days In Quiberon achieves middling scores that average at 2.0 with a 3 (good) from The Telegraph’s Tim Robey but 1 (poor) from Meduza’s Anton Dolin and Katja Nicodemus of Die Zeit Erik Poppe’s U – July 22, a fictionalised portrayal of the 2011 Utoya attack reviewed here achieved top scores of 4 (excellent) from both Dagens Nyheter’s Nicholas Wennö and Screen’s own critic Coming up next are Lav Diaz’s latest Season Of The Devil He Won’t Get Far On Foot starring Joaquin Phoenix Bookmark this page to keep track of all the latest festival dates By 2018-05-01T10:14:00 Emily Atef’s chamber piece takes best film best director and best actress amongst others SIGN IN if you have an account Access premium content Subscribe today If you have an account you can SIGN IN now Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed This modest airfield receives in summer time an incredible number of visitors enjoying flying and visiting the island during their holidays died supposedly on this island during his last fight View important Copyright © information related to freeware files here The archive lfeabelleile.zip has 17 files and directories contained within it This list displays the first 500 files in the package Signing-up for PRO gives you super fast, unrestricted speed to the thousands of MSFS, FSX, P3D & X-Plane downloads which include aircraft, scenery, and more - click here to view the library for free or.. Sign-Up Now PRO membership payments go directly back into the website to pay for hosting It's what also enables us to offer a free download tier Join over 145,000 subscribers of our free dedicated flight simulation newsletter Are you using the latest Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 release Great Britain’s Megan Pascoe is the new World Sailing 2.4mR European Champion after battling it out 15-20 May in Baie de Quiberon Brittany (France) against an all-star line-up West Sussex and now based on Isle of Portland in Dorset is classified as a World Sailing Para Sailing athlete with cerebral palsy world and national champions and four Paralympians in this Inclusive Open regatta “I’m very happy to get my title back!” said Pascoe who was European Champion in 2014 and 2016 especially up against the likes of Damien [Seguin] and Heiko [Kröger] and sailors with incredible CVs We need sailing back in the Paralympics – it’s an amazing pinnacle of our sport,” said Pascoe attracted a total of 16 athletes registered as World Sailing Para Sailors – with the athletes challenged over five days in winds up to 20 knots in this complex one-person keelboat class “We’re now just 45 days before we submit our application with the International Paralympic Committee to reinstate sailing into the Paralympic Games,” said David Graham addressing the media at the start of the race “Seeing so many Para Sailors on the start-line of this Championship is both sensational and inspirational “Sailing has the power to bring together highly competitive athletes with wide-ranging physical and sensory abilities and clearly is a prominent platform in global sport.” Pascoe put a total of four Paralympic athletes through their paces to win her coveted European Champion title five-time 2.4mR World Champion – who last year became the first Para Sailor to compete in the round-the-world non-stop yacht race The Vendée Globe – finished behind Pascoe in second place not bad considering I haven’t competed in the 2.4mR for three years,” said Seguin and in this Open Championship – with Para Sailors old and young sailors all together: this is inclusion at its best!” “Volunteers make events like this Championship happen – thank you to everyone who has helped me personally during the last five days and the tireless efforts of everyone at this Championship “Now it’s back to the IMOCA to train for upcoming competitions.” with gold and silver medals from the Sydney 2000 and London 2012 Paralympic Games and member of World Sailing Athletes’ Commission with Italy’s three-time Paralympic sailor Antonio Squizzato in fourth World Sailing launched its reinstatement bid for the Los Angeles 2028 Paralympic Games last October in response to growing calls from athletes around the world At the same time, the global governing body for sailing launched the ‘Back the Bid’ #SailtoLA campaign supported by renowned international sailors leading figures in the sport and the world’s Para Sailors World Sailing has outlined its strategic priorities to support the growth of the sport by 2023: See full results here and event information here We use Cookies to keep our website safe and secure, to enhance your website experience, to provide social media features and to help us analyse our site. To learn more about the cookies we use and to learn how to manage your cookie preferences, please see the Cookie Policy section of our Privacy Policy This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page If you have any questions or need help you can email us the breakout role which made her name always seemed to be at her shoulder Charlie Connelly Quiberon is a tiny isthmus off the southern coast of Brittany that’s joined to the mainland by a short causeway so narrow it could almost qualify as an island Quiberon hangs from the bottom of its sleeve Romy Schneider had arrived at Quiberon’s spa resort for a few days’ detoxification from the alcohol and pills on which she had become reliant She was about to begin filming an adaptation of Joseph Kessel’s novel The Passerby but that wasn’t why she’d come to Brittany Divorce proceedings from her second husband were about to commence and her 14-year-old son from her first marriage to the German film director Harry Meyen had indicated he would prefer to live with his stepfather when they separated Schneider had visited regularly since moving to Paris from Germany 20 years earlier and as well as the treatments and detoxification she longed for the freedom offered by the Atlantic horizon and the wildness of the coast Each day would begin with a hosing down in freezing water there would be massage treatments and an ascetic diet Yet she couldn’t quite cut herself off completely Schneider had invited Germany’s Stern magazine for an interview It was risky – Germany had never forgiven her for moving to France – but she felt that if she was cleansing her body A completely fresh start lay ahead; the second half of her life would be different once the first had been laid to rest Lebeck and the journalist Michael Jürgs arrived the day before the scheduled interview and suggested they get together that evening at the harbour bistro to loosen up ahead of the formality of the interview It wasn’t long before the table filled with champagne flutes Then a local fisherman walking past the table stopped looked at Schneider and asked if she was Sissi Playing the 19th-century Empress Elisabeth of Austria turned the teenage Schneider into a star The 1955 biopic Sissi remains one of the most successful German-language films of all time drawing more than 25 million people through the box office and inspiring a trilogy ringleted screen appearance in the saccharine film still saw the German press dubbing her “Shirley Tempelhof” Sissi represented the pinnacle of German Heimatfilm a sugary postwar genre of morally unambiguous period films and was so popular Schneider left Germany altogether to escape its shadow working under directors like Luchino Visconti Peter Sellers and Rod Steiger in a career of impressive versatility and range Yet wherever she went Sissi always seemed to be at her shoulder She looked at the fisherman and exhaled a long stream of cigarette smoke Born in Vienna six months after the Anschluss Schneider was the fourth generation of a formidable acting dynasty was an early star of German cinema and an enthusiastic Nazi while her mother The family would spend their summers at a house close to Hitler’s holiday residence at Berchtesgaden and Schneider even claimed her mother had an affair with the Führer understandably struggling to revive her career after the war seeing in her beautiful and talented daughter a route to rehabilitation “I need to become an actress,” Schneider wrote in her teenage diary Whether that represented genuine ambition or a sense of duty to her mother remains but within two years she was a household name Schneider met Alain Delon on the set of 1958’s Christine a remake of a 1933 film in which Magda played the same role The French actor also presented an opportunity to escape Sissi for a new start in Paris For five years Schneider and Delon were Europe’s most glamorous couple until the day in 1963 when she returned from filming in America to find a bunch of red roses and a note I have gone to Mexico with Nathalie.” The woman in question – model Nathalie Barthélémy – soon became pregnant with Delon’s child Caught up in this new level of celebrity and media scrutiny Schneider became known as much for her private life as for her films Even though her marriage to Meyen had ended in 1975 his suicide in 1979 – he had never recovered from the trauma of being tortured by the Gestapo – brought the press flocking to her door with a rare opportunity for solitude and a recalibration of her lifestyle she had volunteered to give an outrageously candid interview that remains infamous in Germany Lebeck snapped photographs of Schneider dancing with the fisherman she unburdened herself with an unfiltered honesty that startled Jürgs She veered between boisterous exuberance and tearful introspection but Jürgs kept his tape recorder running and Lebeck kept taking pictures she wanted a conversation,” shrugged Lebeck later The next morning Schneider skipped around the large boulders on the beach for Lebeck’s lens until she fell and broke her foot during which she approved the text of Jürgs’ interview for publication She felt buoyant for the enforced rest and the absolution provided by the interview It was the last contentment Schneider would ever know She was barely back on her feet when searing back pain forced an emergency operation to remove a tumorous kidney impaling himself while climbing on railings Schneider was found dead sitting at her desk Halfway through writing a letter cancelling a magazine interview Jürgs had barely switched on his tape recorder when Schneider lit a cigarette “I am just an unhappy 42-year-old woman and my name is Romy Schneider” As Portugal sailed the world’s seas in the 15th and 16th centuries its language spread globally – nowhere further than Macao The contest looks plausibly like an alternative governmental structure for our fissiparous yet self-loving continent Home   Sport   Article Lymington sailor Hattie Rogers has returned from racing in France as a European champion after a dominant performance on the water The 23-year-old was among a 150-strong mixed fleet of sailors from 17 countries battling in 17 races over five days at the WASZP European Games in Quiberon Rogers finished the championships in 32nd overall romping home 85.5 points ahead of her nearest female rival in 44th landing her the 2023 WASZP European Ladies Championship title She was one of only five female sailors to make the Gold Fleet It has been an impressive year for the Royal Lymington Yacht Club sailor beginning with be YJA Yachtsman of the Year trophy for her 2022 season She spent four months of winter training in Palma focusing primarily on fitness and the transition to her new foiling Moth In early June she competed at the Moth World Championship in Weymouth – her first major Moth event – and finished second female In late June she swapped back into the WASZP to compete at the UK National Championships in Rutland and took home her third consecutive female national championship title Rogers is currently a trialist for the British Women’s and Youth America’s Cup teams with a programme of training and racing focused on British team selection in the coming months the only thing that matters to me is helming the Youth and Women’s America’s Cup Team AC40 I’m going to do everything in my power to make this a reality There is a brand new pathway being created for youth and women sailors which will give a pathway to professional sailing in the future “I’m really proud of my season so far and how I have approached this summer There is a big support team which I have created around me and I really could not have done it without them Sailing’s an expensive sport and it just would not be possible otherwise Sir Keith Mills who sponsored my new Moth and a few anonymous sponsors who have quite simply been nothing short of remarkable “I would also like to thank the Royal Lymington Yacht Club who have remained as supportive as ever I want to continue to inspire the younger generation particularly female sailors who need to know that they can have the same aspirations as the boys To follow Hattie’s journey head to @hats.sailing on Instagram Last Updated on 27th January 2022 by Sophie Nadeau If there’s one destination I visited last year that completely blew me away it was the Morbihan department of Brittany one of the most beautiful destinations in Bretagne Stretching out nearly nine miles into the sea this quaint destination is known as the ‘Quiberon Peninsula’ Here’s a little insight on how to visit this beautiful destination as well as travel tips to know before you go Tucked away in the Morbihan region of Brittany Presqu’Ile de Quiberon is just that- an almost-island the small strip of land is connected to the rest of France via a small The region itself is breathtaking. With rugged coastline, sparkling waters and a surprising lack of tourists, it’s the kind of place you never get to hear about in guide books. Morbihan itself is packed with culture To the west of Presqu’île de Quiberon a protected stretch of land that’s constantly windswept by the Atlantic It’s here that you’ll find golden sandy beaches and sunsets straight out of a storybook rabbit warrens dominate the predominantly barren landscape a sharp reminder of the region’s darker past known locally as ‘Penthièvre Beach’  It’s hard to imagine that these shores were once key players and held strategic vantage points during WWII. Today Fort de Penthièvre is still in use as a military training ground The obstacles are tough and operated by the French military of Defence there’s a memorial to those brave resistance fighters who were killed during the German occupation of 1944 To the east of the Presqu’Ile de Quiberon lies the charming bay of Quiberon Sheltered from the ocean by the rest of the rugged landscape it’s here where all the action happens Quaint and picturesque, Quiberon is everything you’d expect of a typical Breton town A mix of blue painted wooden houses and the granite that’s typical of the area The town is full of pubs and bars; ie the perfect places to head to for a cider following a windy coastal walk the area isn’t called ‘peninsula of dreams’ for nothing….  Sophie Nadeau is a full time travel writer and photographer focused on cultural experiences in Europe and beyond When she's not chasing after the sunset (or cute dogs she sees on her travels) she can be found reading and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. 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The seacliffs and rocks coming out of the ocean remind me a lot of Northern California I will definitely add this to my France list I’ve never traveled to Brittany myself but your photos make me want to add it to my bucket list for sure This looks like the perfect place for a road trip especially with a name like “peninsula of dreams” Love the fun facts about the history of Brittany I had no idea they had their own celtic language but finding a gorgeous place that is deserted is oh so sweet I’ll have to see if I can squeeze this all in too Your photos are stunning and the guide is so helpful It was nice to hear about the history behind the beauty as well I will definitely put this on my list next time we are near France What I love most though is that it looks like there is hardly anyone there I would love to have that beach practically to myself What a peaceful place to sit and enjoy the sound of the ocean I never would have considered adding it to my France trip if I hadn’t seen your photos I’ve been to Nice and the French Riviera I can see why this area is called “the peninsula of dreams” – it’s beautiful Interesting to know that Fort de Penthièvre is still used to train the French military The closest I’ve been to France is Jersey in the Channel Islands I’ve always fancied going to France though and Presqu’Ile de Quiberon I am a keen hiker and it looks like the perfect place for doing just that Enjoyed reading this – thanks for sharing I’ve never been to France before at all (other than driving through on the way to Germany) but I’ve been reading more and more posts about the country these days and Brittany in particular is a region that appeals to me big time This is a wonderful little guide with some fantastic photos – it’s definitely somewhere I’ll bear in mind when planning my currently hypothetical French road trip Brittany is one of my favourite places on the planet but it looks just as stunning as the other areas of Brittany I’ve visited I started this site back in 2015 with one mission in mind: I wanted to create useful travel guides with a historical and cultural focus Today it has blossomed into my full time job and together with a small team of writers (including my husband and sister) we craft articles to help you travel better throughout Europe © 2015- 2025 Sophie Nadeau. 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