Balmoral Dinard

Ibis St Malo La Madeleine

La Madeleine
35400 Saint Malo, France +33 2 99821010
www.ibishotel.com

... let us into our room Bronte finished her book, now she will be bored senseless too MWHAHAHAHA.

We caught up with our laundry and then went to bed at 7:00, that is way past brontes usual bed time. i was woken up at 2AM by a group of young people yelling and screaming it sounded like they were playing football above our heads. I thought i had imagined it but Bronte told me she heard it too.

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 secondes apres avoir fait le commentaire, gros tonnerre et ca commence à tomber et même à grêler....

Fait du séjour à St-Malo...

... gouter...Ca pu!!!! J’ai commandé plutôt au restaurant le rôtie de porc et la crème brulée, miam!

En étant en France, tu réalises vraiment comment on censure tout ce qu'on mange en Amérique. Ici, tu as les poules qui sont vendues avec leur tête et leurs pattes, les lapins frais (mort) du jour, les pattes, le nez, le cerveau…tu vois tout tout au marché!

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 it. The views were picturesque ...

Famed as one of the best preserved medieval towns in France or so says the Lonely Planet, the old town seemed like it had been swallowed by the new. We had our first crepe and enjoyed it as we wandered through the old cobbled stone streets which became more and more rewarding. We stumbled upon the local young un's hang out which was the city walls. The views looked down onto ...

Moules, Moules, Moules eveywhere. As we drove towards our next desination the road was littered with stalls of mussels and oysters, infact this region produces 4,000 tonnes of oysters annually...guess what is on the menu for lunch! 1kg mussels and 1/2 dozen oysters for the princely sum of 6 Euro. Can't say we are missing ...

... 12 years old. Back at Scooby we watched the stars and bid goodnight to the glorious spot lit Mont.
Mist and cloud greeted us this morning and so our hopes of getting a few sunrise photos of the Mont were dashed. Morning also bought the hordes of tourists and opening of all the tacky tourist shops. The over commercialisation of this site was akin to turning on the ugly lights at the disco! The ambiance so different from last nights reconnaissance mission.

... undertook the siege of the Mount. After having set fire to the village and having massacred the population, he was obliged to beat a retreat under the powerful walls of the Abbey ...

... of some sort and goat cheese (they tell us it is very typical to have a bread loaf with all sorts of things mixed in, whatever is fresh or lying around the kitchen), crackers with three different types of spreads: tuna, olives with anchovies, and another one that I didn't get to try!, ... fresh carrots and cherry tomatoes, ... all of it a perfect meal in and of itself. Finally, I'm learning not to eat too much during the 1st course ... so I take my time. The Pastis, on the other ...