Kerfany-sans-Pins

The area of the village where my Dad has a house is called Kerfany-les-Pins, which means Kerfany-of-the-Pines. In 1987, there were hurricane-force winds in a storm in October, which destroyed much of the Breton forest. It would have been officially called a hurricane, except for that, technically, hurricanes do not occur in that part of the northern Atlantic. After the storm, I took to calling the area by my Dad’s house, Kerfany-sans-Pins, or Kerfany-Without-Pines.