Le Relais des Iles Coudeville-sur-Mer

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 banger of a mobile home van. Eddys family are beautiful, he has 3 great kids and a beautiful cottqge in awsome village.

... top where the abbey is ... figured we'd save that for tomorrow though. And anyway, it started to rain. We are all resting in our rooms now because the shops appeared to be closing at 6:00, and we
can't go to dinner till 7:00. There is no wi-fi access here, and I was really hoping to be able to Skype John.

LATER: Dinner was included on the tour tonight, but we were given vouchers for our choice of two different restaurants. 24 of the 28 of us chose the same ...

Our last official day of ’work’. Jennie and Kevin have been kind enough to offer to take us to their secret camping spot near le Mont-Saint-Michel . A beautiful vista overlooking the open tide towards this beautiful island while the sun sets behind it. We were almost all alone with only 2 other camper vans at this spot and our tent out on the edge of the ...

The Isle of Jersey is truly a delightful place. My choice to come here was a pretty much last thought kind of deal after I had already made arrangements for Iceland and England. So thought I'd pop over here for a quick overnight rather than spend the time in London trying to see sights I have seen before. I am quite glad I did and just wish I had thought of it before so I could have spent more time here. It has a lot of history but I was only able to see a ...

found out yesterday that sky europe has ceased its operations. just great. that is one leg we had flying from Prague to Venice so now i'll have to find another way and i'm sure it won't be as cheap. well, if that's the only problem i run into for 4 months, eh?...

... so I thought I'd do that. my taxi driver said it was about a mile walk out to the castle over a walkway that is covered during high tide. I looked it over and people were walking on it and seemed like i would have plenty of time besides, once I got to the castle, I could buy a ticket to ride the ferry back, a big amphibian truck that runs when there's too much water to walk.
So strolled to the castle ...

Mount-St-Michel is a giant abbey on an island in the middle of the sea. When it was low tide people could walk or drive to the church but it would then become completely surrounded by water by the time the tide rolled in again. The church itself is pretty amazing and it must have been even more so when it was harder to access. It makes a great photograph and is very spiritual but ...

... my host dad said when he was little you had to go at low tide, and there were always people stranded there on high tide! The afternoon we went to Dinard, a quaint little seaside town and decided to do the walk along the beach, as Dinard is famous for its' houses (that look like something out of Walt Disney!). Unfortunately, the weather was against us here, and the whole time we were walking it was raining, raining, raining! With the kids (i'll remind you, my host ...

There are no words in the English language to describe how utterly devastated we are. The drive up from Albertville took a day but it was fairly smooth. We got 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 ...

... to the horrors our grandparents and great grandparents faced and a reflection on what our friends and family members must be facing now. By the time we got back to the hostel we were physically and emotionally tired, but more fulfilled as well, now that we have a better understanding of what happened. Because it's one thing to learn about some long ago war that tool place far from where we (Americans) live, and to actually see where everything happened and to feel a semblance ...