LOCQUIREC, across the bay from Lannion, manages to have beaches on both sides, without ever quite being thin enough to be a real peninsula. Around the main port, smart houses stand in sloping gardens, looking very southern English with their whitewashed stone panels, grey slate roofs and jutting turreted windows. On the last Sunday in July, Locquirec holds a combined pardon de St Jacques and Festival of the Sea.Locquirec veers dangerously close to being over-twee, and none of its hotels is all that cheap – although the Grand Hôtel des Bains, 15 rue de l'Église (tel 02.98.67.41.02, [email protected]; €85–100; closed Jan) has so gorgeous a setting that perhaps it doesn't matter. The Sables-Blancs, 15 rue des Sables-Blancs (tel 02.98.67.42.07; €40–55; closed Jan & Feb), offers sea views at considerably lower prices, while the municipal campsite, the Toul ar Goue, 1km south along the corniche (tel 02.98.67.40.85; closed mid-Sept to mid-April), is beautifully positioned, too.
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