Hotel De L' Europe Saint-Malo

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...

On a passé une bonne partie de la journée à se promener dans le Mont-St-Michel. C'est vraiment spécial comme endroit, isolé du monde, mini village au milieu de…et bien rien! La marée était basse lorsqu'on est allé mais il parait qu'elle peut monter aussi rapidement que le galop d'un cheval. Je me demande si c'est vrai :s Il faudrait bien que je vérifie!

J'ai même ...

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 ...

... 19th century viaduct spanning high above the port. It was beer o'clock so we found the old towns bar street and settled ourselves down on one of the outside tables. We tried two local beers a Picon and Affligate. Picon a dark beer but tasting like it contained lemonade (hmmm not sure about that one) and Affligate which was like a blonde Leffe - this was a good choice ...

... s prices right now! Kim's Maison du Scooby came through with the goods again and produced a delicious Mussels Provincal and Oysters Kilpatrick for lunch. View was amazing as we parked at Pointe de Grouin and the blue waters of the Altantic shone in the background. The scenery around the Pointe reminded us a lot of Cornwall.

Taking the direct route for a change we drove onto Le Mont Saint Michel where had decided to stay for the night. We arrived just before sunset and secured a park at the start of the causeway in direct view of the Mont. I went out to take some photos in the last of the light while Kim prepared some nibbles and popped open a bottle of rose. Together we watched the sun go down and was rewarded by a be pretty red/pink sunset.
After dinner we went for a walk ...

... the tiles. So if you're an architecture buff, scroll on down to the end of my photos for this entry and check out my favourites.

There's heaps of little towns around the place with cheap and easy public transport options to make day trips to as well. Hayley and I went out to Dinard, which is one of those places that would have been huge in the belle epoque - you'd probably recognise the blue and white striped bathing tents from ...

... for British tourists, lying as it does just across the water from old England. Well, that may be the case, but it's a fairly quiet place in the spring. There were certainly tourists out and about across the day, but once evening hit, it was deadsville. Fine with us frankly, as that just meant we had it all to ourselves. The only unfortunate thing was that also meant that most shops and cheap eateries were closed. Many of the town's restaurants ...