A bunker built by German troops in northern France during World War II has been restored and refitted as an underground guesthouse.
The northern coast is still strewn with fortifications left by the German army, which built up a so-called Atlantic Wall to try to fend off Allied Forces.
In Saint-Pabu, on the Breton coast, concrete bunkers are half-buried along the sandy beaches in an area that once operated as a radar station.
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Serge Colliou bought up a plot of land around one of them and spent 18 months digging out and renovating the 400-square-meter (4,300 square feet) structure, turning it into rental for up to eight people, complete with bar and living room.
"We adapted (the bunker) while preserving a certain feel," Colliou said.
"We wanted to give the building a second life, so we are not going to live in the past forever. We saved some aspects, you know where you are, there are historic cues, but this isn't a museum either."
