45 minutes of cruising is all it takes to reach the largest of Brittany's islands (9 km wide and 20 km long) via its capital, Le Palais, sheltered behind the Vauban citadel, or via the small Sauzon harbour, full of flowers. It is in its small colourful valleys, its fragile dunes and its little creeks that "the well named" Belle-Ile inspired Alexandre Dumas, Monet, Sarah Bernhardt and many others…