Les 4 Salines Roz-sur-Couesnon

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.

... and the shower room is also a prefab thing made of plastic. Also, no shower curtain, just that ridiculous single pane of glass. If there's one thing Americans know how to do well, it's bathrooms!

I dropped my stuff in my room, combed my hair (it was pretty windy on the causeway) and then went down to the other building to see if Holly and Yvonne had wandering-around plans. Their room is really cute and has a double bed, a single bed, and a Murphy bed! It's ...

... and closer revealed details that I could not see before. A tiny little island self-contained in the water all walled up and rising high in the center. Unfortunately, upon arrival I see that there are 100’s of other tourists parked outside in cars and buses, and those too cheap to pay for parking are walking along the causeway. All funneled into the terribly cute ...

... to Caen to flop into bed!

The next day (tuesday) we drove to Granville. A small coastal town near Mont St Michel! We got a cute but cheap little hotel room right on the beach. It was a great place to walk around and relax. A funny thing about the harbour is that the boats all park in the water but when its low tide they sink into the sand and are grounded! Happens twice a day and is a funny sight to see! We even went to an aquarium which ...

... done a series of turns. She asked if we wanted her to show us how it all worked, which we eagerly agreed to. Everything she showed us was all connected to the navigation software. The screen looked like a nautical chart and all the sensors on board were connected to this computer. It was connected to the GPS, Global Positioning System, wind sensors, thermometer, barometer, and radar. They every three hours they would receive an updated weather ...

... because there is dog **** everywhere on the street.

All French people smoke – This is an obvious exaggeration but is somewhat true so far for me. Every single person I have met has smoked. Except for one guy with a heart condition. I feel weird for not smoking... There doesn't seem to be any anti-smoking advertisements anywhere and they don't seem to understand that smoking is very bad for you! My body is not used to so much smoke after so many ...

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 ...

... is 10 and host sister 4), this was not easy. After a lot of complaining, and getting lost once, we were back in the car, soaking wet. We drove home and found a little restaurant to eat at, just a few hundred metres from our gîte (which was not near anything else!). It was sooo cute, like a little country town with one restaurant back home. I ate moules frites (mussels and fries) which was reallly niceee, and its a speciality of the area so I thought when in Rome ...

... to sea with sand flats around it when the tide is out and water surrounding it when the tide is in. There is nothing tall or significant around it for miles so it just stands there by itself all majestic and mysterious. It almost made me want to go to church again! That is until we actually got on the mount itself. You drive down this pier type thing that connects the island to the mainland and when you get to the parking lot there is a sign that says ...

... Deuxième grand hasard : Ariane rencontre un ancien ami du secondaire qu'elle avait perdu de vue depuis des années ; combien de chances de se rencontrer là, précisément en ce jour et à cet endroit ? On commence à monter les rues (NDA : j'ai l'impression que le Mont St-Michel n'a qu'une seule rue, bondée et très étroite, qui monte en spirale autour du mont vers l'abbaye), et on se décide à faire les quatre musées qui parsèment le lieu, pour la modique somme de ...