“You have to make it to Brittany,” a friend told me. Even my relatives in Lille highly recommended it. So I did a little reading and off we went to the Atlantic coast! And to our convenience, the highlights of Brittany happened to be not far from Lower Normandy. We toured a cluster of beautiful towns within the same area: the fortified town of Saint Malo, the fishing village of Cancale, and the medieval town of Dinan. Little did we know that we would end up being completely enamored by this northwestern region of France. Of the three, we spent…