A Photographer

His name is Rainer Pawellek and he takes wonderful pictures of Brittany. You can have a look on his website or his profile on DeviantArt. Me personally, I admire him! In his pictures he shows Brittany as it is seen by the Bretons and you can really feel the athmospere of the places just by looking at the photos.

We talked about Rainer with the First Breton and he said one thing that helped me understand Brittany much more. He said:
"We're not born Breton but we become Breton in our lives."
And Rainer really did that - just look at his pictures and you'll understand!

The Most Beautiful Breton Song

This song is my most favourite one. Always when I hear someone singing it I have to stop for for a while and just listen. This kind of songs are in Breton called "Gwerz" - a ballad. There are many of them in Brittany.

So the song:

An hini a garan ('The One I love')

An hini a garan, gwechall bihan er gêr
Pa oamp tostig an eil, an eil ouzh egile
Va c'halon ne gare, gare nemet unan
Pa oan bihan er gêr an hini a garan

An hini a garan, 'm eus kollet da viken
'Mañ degouezhet pell ha ne zistroio ken
Ha setu ma kanan, kanan keti ketañ
Ha setu ma kanan d'an hini a garan

An hini a garan, un deiz 'n eus va losket
Aet eo d'ar broioù pell, d'ur vro n'an'vezan ket
Aet eo d'ar broioù pell da c'hounit e vara
Kollet, kollet un deiz, an hini a garan

In English:

The one I love, before, when we were little at home
when we were so near to each other
My heart was loving ony one
When I was little at home, the one I love

The one I love, I lost forever
Gone far away and will never come back
And this is what I sing for the one I love

The one I love one day left me
For a far away land
A land that I don't know
Lost, lost one day, the one love

You can find the sheetmusic for this Breton song (and many more) on SonHaTon