01 October 2009

St. Malo

Kirsten and I spent a day in St. Malo, a French port town where we caught our ferry to Guernsey. It's a beautiful town.


First we took care of some business and found a laundromat. Kirsten did some amazing, in-laundromat, quick changing so she could wash the pants she was wearing. Afterwards we found a hotel that would take our bags and store them for us, even though France has a security policy that prohibits baggage storage. The girl working at the hotel was British. She may not have been familiar with the policy.


St. Malo has a section of town surrounded by the old city walls. We found a bakery and bought baguettes to eat on top of the walls.


From the walls, there are views out to small surrounding islands and fortresses. The little islandy-formation in the background behind Kirsten was closed to the public because a film crew was working there.


This is a fortress off the coast of St. Malo.


We hiked down to the beach and investigated the fortress. This is the view facing away from the fortress.


This is a street sign in St. Malo. I would love to know how it was named. I hope there was really a dancing cat involved.


Oh, and we ate these yummy pastries in St. Malo too.

3 comments:

Sean said...

Is—could it be—is that pastry a kouign amann?? There's one place in Salt Lake that sells them, and they are totally addictive, but I've always wondered how they compare to the real thing.

Now I want a kouign amann.

MBC said...

Yes! I was trying to remember the name and I couldn't. Ours were quite good. Mine was apple filled and Kirsten's was plain with nutella.

Sean said...

Les Madeleines only makes them one way—unfilled—but now I have an overpowering urge to buy a ticket to Brittany and just GO TO TOWN on some delicious kouign amanns. Or whatever the plural is. I don't speak Breton.