Saint-Malo
Travel Blogs from Saint-Malo, France
Almost the End of Europe
24th - 25th September 2007. We drove right through to St Malo from Lacanua which took most of the day. We checked into a budget hotel chain and went next door for dinner....at Macca's. The first time we'd resorted to the golden arches through the whole ...
Brittany
Brittany is salty and seafaring. Staying in a little hotel that is like a lighthouse. Dined on seafood and crepes and cider. On Anzac Day I went to a service for members of the Resistance who died in the concentration camps. This is the 60th ...
Saint-Malo
... stuff the whole way and shared our music with eachother since we were both listening to our ipods as well. The trip to Saint- Malo took about 2-2.5 hours. M. Melin was on our bus (he's the president of CIDEF-- Kalani, Ashley and I get to eat with ...
Le Mont Michel
... We took some great pictures leaving Poole then before you know it , WHAM, we rounded the heads into a forty knot gale coming over from France. They sped the boat up to full speed and it nealy swept us off the viewing deck. We went below to get a couple of ...
The Paris to St-Malo Rally
... . We went through the north roads, driving near Rouen, Caen, before heading back down south through Avranches, and finally reaching St-Malo around 6.30pm. Heading for the medieval city, the walls loomed from a distance. I found one of the gates to the ...
Normandy in September
Many of you know that my parents were just in France for a visit. It had been 4 months since we last saw them back in Lincoln! I felt like a little girl again when I saw their happy faces at the airport. We spent the weekend walking around ...
Mont St. Michel
Sunday we drove 2 hours to Bretagne (or Brittany) to Mont St. Michel. There is an abbey on top which began construction in the 700s. It's very old and medieval. There were a ton of steps we had to climb up, but once we got to the top, it was well worth ...
Cruising to Saint Malo & Navigation
... ’t had the chance to. We wanted to pull out the two jet-skis and ride along as the yacht continued its course towards Saint Malo, still several hours away. The Second Mate was at the helm and she called the bosun to prepare to launch the jetskis. ...
Mont Saint Michel
... not to denote the experience or anything... Mont Saint Michel was fantastic!!! Its this amazing monastery-island in Brittany-Northern France, and has religious and ghost stories coming out its ears...the tides are also really incredible, the island is ...
Is Foxy telling us she rather be in Africa?
... Foxy back from the garage all fixed up except the driver's window doesn't wind up anymore. Minor detail. Just kilometres away from St. Malo, we decided to stop for the night (well, technically it was early morning by then) and get a couple hours of ...
The Celtic Lands of France
... of years protected the city from destruction. During WWII that streak ended with the allied bombing campaign to liberate France. During the conflict, American bombs were responsible for the destruction of eighty percent of St. Malo. Even though most ...
Long drive
... The roads were empty, so although we had to drive carefully because of the weather conditions, we made good progress and reached St Malo by the afternoon. The campsite we intended to stay at was closed for the winter, so we looked around for somewhere to ...
7 mai 2006 : Saint-Malo et la mer
... , une partie des événements a été omise : un homme nous as assurés que la numéro 8 effectue la liaison avec Saint-Malo, malgré les appréhensions de PL, qui dispose de renseignements divergents, et qui se révéleront finalement erronés. À notre ...
C'est parti, direction Saint-Malo!
... von Paimpol ueber Guingcamp und Rennes gefahren, was 4 Stunden gedauert hat, aber die Zeit verging wie im Flug. In Saint-Malo angekommen, haben wir einen Spaziergang in der Stadt gemacht, dessen Kern auf einer Insel liegt und von Festungsmauern umgeben ...
TRAVEL POD POETRY - TWO
... eye can reach. The salty air fills this place called Brittany And we're most at home in our new family! We got linked to Saint Malo by our friend Alli H., So we're staying with her billet from last year's exchange. They live in the cute little ...
Saint-Malo
We got up this morning and drove to St-Malo. It was a nice 45 min. drive. St-Malo is a very beautiful, walled city. First we walked along the coast. It was very beautiful and sunny out and very windy. They have a very interesting break wall system to ...
Poking into Bretagne
Here we are amidst grey stone and equally grey skies in Brittany, the Celtic-tinged far northwest of France. Pity it's such a brief visit, as the region shows a lot of intriguing promise. As I may have mentioned before though, Mayu and I had a day to play ...
Beach, Sun and Food!
... which was decent, not overly busy so only had one other guy in my room. It included breakfast for 23 euro, even though it was horrific! If you're looking for some time to chill out, head to Saint Malo and enjoy the beach! I would certainly recommend it. ...
Stuffed
... ;s wait at Rennes station. We speak to Phil to sort out a hotel in the old town close to the ferry terminal. Alighting at St Malo it is decidedly cool. Phil has come up trumps with a lovely little hotel within the town walls; the only problem is that it ...
Route De Rock
... Bert, who I called Bert Newton (no one got that joke but me) gave me his blanket as it got quite cold at night. Got to go to Saint Malo in the day time and jump of a big diving platform. It was only 5 meters but it felt about 20. The festival was in the ...
Déluge en 5 minutes!
Arret d'une heure à St-Malo. Cinq minutes après s'être stationné...il commence à pleuvoir. Mais jusqu'à là, ca allait. Apres un certain temps, je réalise qu'il a un Énorme nuage d'une couleur douteuse qui approche un peu trop rapidement. 30 ...
To France without Mike Oldfield.
... on the way in too. The cars have five number registration plates! Then on to another channel island... then to France. And its surprisingly great; the tourist information supplies a list of accommodation for the area, posts a weather forecast and ...
Mont St. Michel
... nbsp; They did this via tactics like a whole mass of inflatable tanks. Afterwards, we took a tender from the boat to the shore as Saint-Malo didn't have piers. Saint-Malo is a walled city about an hour from Mont St. Michel and is known as the city ...
Mont St Michel
... they rented. We were heading to Mont Saint Michel, which is an abbey on an island in the middle of the Brittany and Normandy regions of France. I'd already been there the last time I was in France, but it was a nice place so I thought I could go again. We ...
Enjoying the beach at St Malo
We all headed off today to visit the port of St Malo. It was overcast and colder today so we pulled on jeans for the first time in weeks. Felicity caught a ride earlier with the McFarlanes and stopped off in Dinan. We felt at home as we drove into the ...
From Far Breton to Pain au Chocolat
Saint Malo's beach is stunning. It has one of the highest tidal ranges in the world (13 or so metres I believe), which allows for very peaceful beach strolls on the sand at low tide and, at high tide, a dramatic show of waves crashing against the sea wall ...
No longer in Caen
... randomly decides to disconnect so I won't be able to upload any pictures at the moment. Just letting everyone know that we're no longer in Caen, but have moved to San Malo (still in France). It's a walled city on the coast of Northern ...
waiting for eddy
We arrived in St Malo at 8am Sunday morning, and waited in the departure lounge for about 3 hours untill aymericks friend eddy turned up. Playing out guitars in an empty terminal, hungover, eddy finally arrived and we drove down in his make shift old ...
Top day in the Ford Super Max
... euros we now have the car until we jump on the TGV in Le Mans on Sunday morning. Nothing was too much trouble at the St. Malo office. Top stuff. We were expecting a Citroen Picasso but we have ended up with a Ford Diesel manual super max. Quite a ...
