Saturday, June 11, 2005
Breton festival
Elizabeth takes Breton Dance classes in Les Champs Geraux and today there was a Breton festival in Rennes in which her group was one of the participants in the displays.
Caroline, Hugh and I along with the group dressed in traditional costume drove, out to the outskirts and Rennes and we took the Metro, underground train, into the center of town. There was various displays and activites, learning to speak Breton, traditional games played with palets - small metal discs thrown onto various wooden boards, Breton music and lots of Breton Dancing.
 | Breton dancing in Rennes |
 | Place du Parlement, Rennes |
 | Traditional Breton palet games, |
The games above from left to right are:
- Les Palets a case - The largest opening scores 1 and the smallest 5
- Botez-Koad - A clog to launch your palet into
- Kheops - Triangular wooden board. The smaller the area the bigger the score
- La Chambranlou - A board on a spring
- Les Pertous - I think the object was to get into one of the holes
- Le Trou d'Souris - No idea ?
The palets are heavy round metal discs that are thrown at the targets.
brittany
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Breton festival
