Talbert Pipes Life in France Places Kermario This little door looked out on the stone creperie where we had lunch. The creperie sits out in the middle of the Kermario alignments - an excellent location for tourist business! The Kermario alignments are only a portion of the total standing stones at Carnac, which number over 2,700 according to wildly different counts. It's difficult to establish exactly which stones can be considered part of Carnac and which have been moved or destroyed. The various parts of the Kermario alignments (including the chamber tomb) were put in place between 4,700 and 3,800 BC - twice the years before the Romans as there have been since. It's mind-boggling to think of time in sections this huge. A model of the Kermario alignments as seen from the air. That little building right in the middle of the monument lines is where we had lunch. One of the larger of the standing stones. We were unable to walk among them because it was tourist season, but during the Fall and Winter months it is possible to wander freely among the alignments (when foot traffic is light enough not to be destructive) The rows are sufficiently large that is is quite difficult to get a decent photograph of them. The best I could manage were small groups of a few stones, which totally lacks the sheer immensity of the alignment presence We found this little fellow during our travels