After a restful night in Caen, we continued our trip to the Brittany coast. The Brittany Coast consists of 1200 km of beautiful country side with rich soil for growing most of Paris vegetable produce. It is also referred to as the Emerald coast as the ocean provides abundance of seafood - tuna sardines mussels oysters snails.
The first stop of the day is the Pirate city of St Malo. Saint-Malo is a walled port city in Brittany in northwestern France on the English Channel. It is a sub-prefecture of the Ille-et-Vilaine. Traditionally with an independent streak, Saint-Malo was in the past notorious for piracy.
Gary's very excited about the abundance of sail boats in the harbour. (see any other boats u like Ken?)
Jacques Cartier, who sailed theSaint Lawrence River and visited the sites of Quebec City and Montreal – and is thus credited as the discoverer of Canada, lived in and sailed from Saint-Malo, I think he's pointing to Canada.
Look even a little French Canadians set up shop here.
Of course I just had to check out the seafood for lunch to make sure there's a difference between our seafood and their seafood ;)
Okay, I'm happy now. We can continue to the next town.
I always wanted to visit the Mont Saint Michel Abbey (an UNESCO site) when I first watched Rick Steeves feature on a benedictine monestary in the middle of a bay. The long history of MSM dates back to 708 built as a sanctuary to honor the Archangel. The monestary soon became a focus of pilgrimage and later a prison during the French cultural revolution.
A small village grew up and around the monestary and narrow winding streets that lead up to the monestary are lined with restaurants and tacky tourist nick knack shops that surely was not there a century ago.
We toured some of the areas that were opened to the public including prayer room, chapel, library, meditation courtyard and eating hall. Gary is standing in one of the fireplaces where cooking used to take place.
One final look outside from the monestary, looks like YVR under construction doesn't it? It took around five hours to return to Paris from Mont St Michel.
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