Stuff on Walls #67

90 minutes de PURE PASSION

This thing rocks St Malo every Friday!

This guy's got it bad.

See, I told you.

Check out this 3-D picture of Dave Grohl arm wrestling that guy from The Prodigy!

Go, Grohl!

Bretagne Bites

The other thing about Bretagne... is the food.

The region is known for its cider made from local apples.
Yums!

More cider.

And buckwheat crepes are another specialty.  They are very simply done, without all of the creme sauces and butter that seemed to crap up crepes when I had them in the States.  This is the real deal and it don't need no bells and whistles.

The region is also known for its seafood.   There are lobster, langoustine, shrimp, oysters, and mussels to be had on every corner!
These are yummy grilled sardines.

They were no match for me n' B.

Kouign aman is another specialty from Bretagne.  It is not so easy to come by in Paris, either.  But if you find one, get it warm or heat it up and you will be in heaven.  It tastes like a cinnamon roll crossed with a croissant.... oh heaven, it is amazing!

B displays a kouign aman.

We also tried this ker-y pom, which neither of us had seen before.  It's sorta like a apple tart, but with a crisp cookie bottom.

Behold, the ker-y pom!

I have had langoustine the world over, but these langoustine... they tasted like lobster.

The sundae sampler at a local ice cream joint.

Petite dejeuner.

Amuse bouche.

Salmon yumminess.

Local oysters.

Crazy meringue + ice cream dessert = nap on the beach afterward.

St Malo

After much rumination on where to spend a weekend outside of Paris (but still in France), we headed to St Malo.  (We tossed around somewhere in the south of France, as well as other cities in Brittany, but we were limited by the TGV destinations since we didn't want to rent a car.)

So we ended up in St Malo, a walled city at the end of a river on one side and beaching into the English Channel on the other.  The city has a rich history and was once inhabited by privateers (also called "corsairs"), who ventured out to extort from the ships on the channel.

St Malo is also surrounded by rocky islands that can only be reached at low tide.  It makes for a beautiful view.

Looking from the walled city toward the Grand Bé island.

The old walled city overlooking the beach at sunset.

Monument to those who perished in WWII.

We must have covered all of these beaches in our walks.

Hey!  Leave the dogs out of it!

Byron gets his shot.

Here we are at the Fort National, which was built to protect the city of St Malo and is now a museum.  Note the water coverage at high tide.  Hope you like to swim!

But look now!  Low tide means you can stroll right up there!  And stroll we did...

Leather boots on a wet beach...

need drying out afterward.

Later the same day (in different shoes), we hit up the Grand Bé.  This is the island where the writer Chateaubriand is buried.  Look at the path that is underwater most of the day.

On the Grand Bé, there are tidepools galore...

and mussels ripe for the picking.

Not to mention beautiful scenery.

Here lies Chateaubriand.

The next day was bright and sunny.  Here you can see the Grand Bé with the Petite Bé behind it.  (It seems like a lot, but there are only two Bés.)

Beach swimming pool.

Pretty jetty.

Even the manhole covers are beautiful.

And I leave you with some cats.