St Malo

So after our whirlwind trip to Paris we went back to St. Malo and explored that for a bit, including a trip out to the famous and beautiful Mont St. Michel :) St. Malo, is a fairly large town on the coast with a walled city and really awesome hippodrome so we explored there and then hired a car and drove out to the Mont via the coast which was lovely. The area is basically famous for it's seafood, it's apples ( for Calvados), it's horses and biscuits. I'm pretty sure Katherine should live there.

Promenading along the esplanade

Moules Frites

The Mont St. Michel

View from the Mont

Those tiny specs are people walking and riding horseback along the sands

The beach at St.Servain where we had dinner

inside the walled city

View from the ramparts around the walled city out over the beach.

Where else could I eat other than the Golden Lion??

A traditional cup of cider to while away the summer afternoon while planning our next trip...

Continued...

So from there we went to PARIS ! which was awesome, I was hoping to see a chipmunk in the Jardins Luxembourg, I did not. However, the rest of Paris was amazing ! We only went for a day but we went to see the Tour de France so, um, it was pretty epic !!! I got to see Mark Cavendish win, it was the best thing ever. I was. so. excited. Awesome.

aaaandd...we're back

Alright so I know I suck and it's been ages since I blogged and you're all ready to fly over here with pitchforks and mob chants but whatever, I'm back now and it should be all systems go blog-wise for the rest of the time here. So where were we?

Oh yeah, my completely amazing mum came and visited me over in Jerseyland and we went on a mini-break to France ( I love that I can say that...) so after one short night on Jersey for mum we caught the ferry and a short hour and twenty minutes later were in a completely different country :) Which is where the fun begins...

After a completely planned and not at all stressful car tour of inner St. Malo ( the hippodrome is lovely btw) we drove the nearly 300km to Douarnenez, further down the west coast, for the biannual sailing boat festival, Temps Fete. 

The festival is highly popular and famous throughout the region and is where, every two years, every man and his boat ( literally) sails from Brest to Douarnenez on the thursday, and then makes port in Douarnenez. Throughout the Friday, Saturday and Sunday there are races, exhibitions, games, music, food stalls and local artists set up along the pier and even famous sailing ships which you can either go while they're docked and have a look around or you can go out and sail on at certain times throughout the day, including, the ship from Horatio Hornblower, the Earl of Pembrooke. Since mum and I arrived fairly late on the thursday we went down and had a little look from the top of the hill but didn't go into the festival, then spent the entire day saturday at the festival and exploring the maritime museum.

Outside our Bed and Breakfast

The Passerelle - a draw-foot-bridge

Mum outside the famous Penn Sardin shop - Douarnenez used to be a huge town for Sardine export

Looking towards the Harbour

The view form the hill with all of the boats coming into the harbour.

One of the food stalls set up did baked potatoes - french style.

Accrovoile - where little kids get to climb up the rigging and ring a little bell 

The brass is sooooo shiny!

Adorable little steam boat - the most hightech boat we saw I think :) 

mum enjoying a crepe for lunch :)

At the maritime museum, mum had to get a picture with "Pieter"

Didn't notice this was even a sardine can at first but when I did I decided I had to get a picture as a sardine !

jealous?...

On the drive back to St. Malo we stopped of at a little town called Morlaix for palmiers...

Stay tuned for the next part...