Mature Flâneur

Amongst the Pirates of the Brittany Coast

Back when piracy was a good career move

Is that you, Captain Jack Sparrow? What are you doing in Brittany? Is your compass broken? (All photos by Tim Ward except as noted).

My 35 year old son, Josh, recently joined a band of pirates. To be more precise, he is an actor and recently joined the cast of a troupe that improvises pirate adventures on stage.

Josh, in character for a performance of «Odd-at-Sea». Photo credit: SideQuest Theater. Used with permission.

Roll Play: Odd at Sea - SideQuest Theater

As a result, I’m perhaps more aware of pirates these days than I was before Josh’s career move. Thus, on my recent trip along the Brittany coast (with, of course, my beloved spouse Teresa), I noticed the pirates. Specifically, I noticed a candy shop in the Port of St. Malo that looked like this:

In the US, we tend to think of “Pirates of the Caribbean”, but the pirates of the Brittany coast were no joke, particularly for English…